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before the battle of Serbraxos *, whence the road paffes by 

 Correva, which is indeed upon a rifmg ground, Hoping 

 gently to the lake Tzana, but is not either mountain or 

 hill. 



Seven or eight days are a fpace of time juft enough for 

 the palling through Woggora, where he juftly remarks 

 the heats are not fo exceffive as in the places he came from. 

 He takes no notice of the paflage of Lamalmon, which ought 

 to have been very fenfible to a man in a decayed ftate of 

 health, the lefs fo as he was only defcending it. Every thing 

 which relates to the paffage of theTacazze is juft and pro- 

 per, only he calls the river itfelf the Tekefel, inftead of the 

 true name, the Tacazze. It was the Siris of the ancients ; and 

 it is doing juftice to both countries, when he compares the 

 province of Sire with the mofl delicious parts of his own 

 country of France. This province is that alfo where he 

 might very probably receive the young elephant, w T hich he 

 fays awaited him there as a prefent to the king of France,, 

 and which died a few days after. 



He panned afterwards to Adowa. Tt is the capital of Ti- 

 gre, is ftill the feat of its governor, and was that of Ras 

 Michael in my time. All that he fays of the intermediate 

 country and its productions, fliew plainly that his work is 

 genuine, and his remarks to be thofe of an eye-witnefs. . 



From this province of Tigre he enters the country of the 

 Baharnagafh, and arrives at Dobarwa, which he erroneouf- 



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*-Tb. he defcribed hereafter. 



