22- ‘(TRAV ELS TO) DISCOVER 
Tus fever prevailed in Abyflinia in all low grounds and 
plains, in the neighbourhood of all rivers which run in val-’ 
leys; it is really a malignant tertian, which, however, has’ 
fo many forms and modes of intermiffion that’it is impoffi- 
ble for one not of the Faculty 'to def{cribe it. It is not in all’ 
places equally dangerous, but on the banks and neighbour-’ 
hood of the Tacazzé it is particularly fatal. ‘The valley 
where that river runs is very low and fultry, being full of 
large trees) In’ Kuara, too,;it is very mortal; in Beleffen’ 
and Dembea lefs fo; in Walkayt it is dangerous ; but not. 
fo much in Tzegade, Kolla, Woggora, and Waldubba. It’ 
does not prevail in high grounds or mountains, or in pla- 
ces much: expofed to the air. This fever is called Ne- 
dad, or burning; it begins always with a. fhivering and 
headach, a heavy eye, and inclination to vomit; a violent’ 
heat follows, which leaves little intermiffion, and ends ge- 
nerally in death the third or fifth day. In the laft flage of 
the diftemper the belly fwells to an enormous fize, or fome- 
times immediately after death, and the body within an in-’ 
ftant fmells moft infupportably; to prevent which they bury’ 
the corpfe immediately after the breath is out, and often 
within the hour. The face has a remarkable yellow ap- 
pearance, with a blackifh caft, as in the laft flage of a drop. 
fy or the atrophy. This fever begins immediately with the 
fun-fhine, after the firft rains, that is, while there are inter- 
vals of rain and fun-fhine: it ceafes upon the earth being” 
thoroughly foaked in July and Auguft, and begins again 
in September; but now, at the beginning of November, it 
finally ceafes everywhere, 
THE country about Googue is both fertile and pleafant, — 
all laid out in wheat, and the grain good. They were now 
i : in 
