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pery, and men, horfes, and mules were rolling promifcuouf. 
ly over one another. 
I REsonveD to try for myfelf fome other way that might 
be lefs thronged. I went to the place where Woodage A- 
fahel defcended when he was fhot by Sebaftos; but the 
ground there was more uneven, and fully as much .crowd- 
ed. I then croffed the road to the eaftward, where the Ras’s 
tent ftood, and where Kefla Yafous’s two riephews had gone 
round to diflodge Ayto Tesfos: there was a confiderable 
number of people even here, but it was not a croud, and. 
they were moftly women... I determined to attempt it, and 
got into a fmall flanting road, which I hoped would con- 
duct me to the bed of the torrent; but I found, upon going 
half way down the hill, that, in place of a road, it had been 
a hollow made by a torrent, which ended on a precipice,. 
and below, and on each fide of this, the hill was exceedingly 
fteep, the {mall diftance I could fee.. 
In Abyflinia, the camp-ovens for making their bread are 
in form of two tea-faucers joined bottom to bottom, and are: 
fomething lefs than three feet in diameter, being made of 
a light, beautiful potter's ware, which, although red when 
firft made, turns to a glofly black colour after being greafed: 
with butter. This being placed upright, a fire of charcoal 
is put under the bottom-part; the bread, made like pan- 
cakes, is pafted all within the fide of the upper cavity, or 
- bowl, over which is laid a cover of the fame form or fhape. 
It is in form of a broad wheel, and a woman carrics one of 
thefe upon her back for baking bread in the camp. It hap- 
pened that, juft as I was deliberating whether to pro- 
ceed or return, a woman had rolled one of thefe down the 
hill. 
