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earth from about them, had rolled down from the mouns 
tain above. Both fides of the defile are covered thick with 
wood and bufhes, efpecially that deteftable thorn the kan-. 
tuffa, fo juflly reprobated in pia. 
Havine extricated ourfelves fuccefsfully from this pafs, 
our fpirits were fo elated, that we began to think our jour= 
ney now at an end, not-reflecting how many pafles, full of 
real danger, were ftill before us. At three quarters paft 
eight we came to Werkleva, a village of Mahometans, Above 
this, too, is Armatchiko, a famous hermitage, and around 
it huts inhabited by a number of monks. Thefe, and their 
brethren of Magwena, are capital performers in all difor- 
ders of the ftate; all prophets and diviners, keeping up the 
{pirit of riot, anarchy, and tumult, by their fanatical inven- 
tions and pretended vifions. 
Havine refted a few minutes at Tabaret Wunze, a wretch- 
ed village, compofed of miferable huts, on the banks of a 
{mall brook, at a quarter after two we pafled the Coy, a 
large river, which falls into the Mahaanah. From Mai 
Lumi to this place the country was but indifferent in a 
pearance; the foil, indeed, exceedingly good, but a will 
nefs and look of defolation covered the whole of it. The 
grafs was growing high, the country extenfive, and almoft 
without habitation, whilt the few huts that were to be feen 
feemed more than ordinarily miferable, and were hid in re- 
ceffes, or in the edge of valleys overgrown with wood. The 
inhabitants feemed to have come there by ftealth, with a 
cefire to live concealed and unknown. 
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