276 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
lowed by a whale, or fome other fuch great fifh. They are 
hewers of wood, and carriers of water, to Gondar, and are 
held in great deteftation by the Aby/fflinians. 
We crofled the river to the miferable village of Door-Mac- 
ary, which is on the eaft fide of it; and there we took up 
our quarters, after a fhort but very fatiguing, day’s journey. — 
The people fhewed great figns of uneafinefs upon our firft 
appearance, and much reluctance to admit us under their 
roofs ; and difcovering that we were not any of thofe that 
had the honour of being defcended from the prophet Jonah, . 
they hid all their pots and drinking-veffels, left they fhould 
be prophaned by our ufing them. From Door-Macary we 
difcovered a high mountainous ridge, with a very rugged 
top, ftretching from North to South, and towering up 1m 
the middle of the foreft, about five miles diftance ; it is call- 
ed Badjena. i 
On the 28th, a little after mid-day, we pafled Toom Aredo 
and went, firft Eaft, then turned North, into the great road. 
We foon after paffed a number of villages ; thofe on the 
high mountain Badjena on the Eaft, and thofe belonging 
to the church of Kofcam on the Weft. Continuing ftill 
North, inclining very little to.the Weft, we came to a fleep 
and rugged defcent, at the foot of which runs the Mogetch, 
in a courfe ftraight North; this defcent is called the dnd. . 
At a quarter paft two we pafied the Mogetch, our direction 
N. W. Itis here a large, fwift running ftream, perfectly 
elear,-and we halted fome time to refrefh ourfelves upom 
its banks ; remembering how very different it was from 
what we had once left it, difcoloured with blood, and chok- 
ed, 
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