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GENERAL NOTES. 
GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL.^ 
Africa; Borelli's Travels in Galla-Land. — Sr. 
Borelli has surveyed portions of the country to the south of 
Abyssinia. Mount Harro (3,150 metres) and the Dendi- 
grons of which it forms a part, form the watershed between 
Hawash, the Abai (Nile) and the Omo or Ghibie. The explorer 
went to Kiffan in the Kingdom of Gomma, and accompanied 
the king to Giren the capital, and to the summit of Mount 
Maiguddo (3,300 m.) whence the mountains of Guild, Centab, 
Aruzulla, etc., were seen and their positions ascertained. He 
then went to the Peak of Ali, to the market Cornbi, and to the 
cascade of the Ghibie, 40 metres high. Then traversing the 
desert between Gimma and Giangero, he attempted to visit 
Mount Borguda where it is said that human sacrifices are 
offered on the first of every month but was attacked by 
the lancemen of Giangero, and compelled to fly. Afterwards 
he visited the river Omo with the idea of passing south of the 
town of Vallamo to Cuccia, but was hindered by the king of 
Gimma. Another attempt to reach Borguda was defeated by the 
Giangero, so, traversing the country of Abalti, he entered that of 
the Daddale, and then returned to Antoto, whence he started 
for Zeila on the 9th October last. 
The Giangero are neither Musselmen nor Christians, yet 
adore a single spiritual indefinable god, to whom they sacrifice 
with knives at the first moon of every month 47 males who 
always belong to two honored families. All the Giangero, by an 
operation performed when young, have but one testicle, and 
cut their hair that they may not appear women. 
The river Omo does not turn to the east, as shown on all 
maps, but at 5° N. lat, bends westward and then turning 
southward falls into a lake or rather extensive marsh, known 
as Sciambara. This information was derived by Sir Borelli, 
from the testimony of more than 100 merchants in the habit 
of traversing the country in caravans. These merchants also 
asserted that the Omo leaves Lake Sciambara at its southern 
extremity, and ends by sinking under ground near a very 
large lake, which Borelli believes to be the Victoria. Thus 
the Omo may be the true source of the White Nile. 
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