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the devil to do. I therefore hung my arms upon my 
horfe, and, taking a gun in my hand, wandered among 
the trees by the road-fide, in purfuit of the doves or pigeons. 
In a few hours [ had fhot feveral {cores of them, efpecially 
on the banks. of the Mai Lumi, or the River of Lemons, 
We came to it in about an hour from Waalia, and coafted 
it for fome minutes, as it ran north-eaft parallel to our 
courfe. 
A pRropicious quantity of fruit loaded the branches of 
thefe trees even likely to break them ; and thefe were in all 
ftages of ripenefs. Multitudes of bloffoms covered the op- 
pofite part of the tree, and fent forth the moft delicious. 
odour poffible. We provided ourfelves amply with this 
fruit. The natives make no ufe of 1%, but we found it a 
great refrefhment to us, both mixed with our water, and as. 
fauce to our meat, of which we had now no great variety 
fince our onions had failed us, and afupply of them was no: 
longer to pei 
. 
Ar fourteen minutes paft feven, continuing north-wetft, 
we crceffed the river Mai Lumi, which here runs weft; and, 
continuing ftill north-weft, at eight o’clock we came to the. 
mouth of the formidable pafs, Dav-Dohha, which we en- 
tered with good countenance enough, having. firft refted: 
five minutes to put ourfelves in order, and we found our 
appetites failing us through exceflive heat. The pafs of 
Day-Dohha is a very narrow defile, full of ftrata of rocks, 
like fteps of ftairs, but fo high, that, without leaping, or 
being pulled up, no horfe or mule can afcend. Moreover, 
the defcent, though fhort, is very fteep, and almoft choked 
ap by huge ftones, which the torrents, after wafhing the 
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