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<o touch the body; he had been ham-ftrung, and his throat 
cut, a performance probably of the neighbouring Shangal- 
la. At fifty minutes paft ten, our route being weft, we 
- paffed under a hill a quarter of a mile on our right, upon 
which is a village called Salamgué. At a quarter paft ele- 
_ ven we croffed the fmall river of Kantis ; and a quarter of an 
hour afterwards we afcended a hill upon which ftands a 
village of that name, inhabited by Mahometan Shangalla 
of the tribe of Baafa. : 
On the 20th we proceeded but a mile and a half; our 
beafts and ourfelves being equally fatigued, and our cloaths 
torn all torags. Guanjook is a very delightful {pot by the 
river fide ; {mall woods of very high trees interfperfed with 
very beautiful lawns; feveral fields alfo cultivated with 
cotton ; variety of game (efpecially Guinea fowls, in great 
abundance) and, upon every tree, perroquets, of all the dif- 
ferent kinds and colours, compofe the beauties of Guan- 
jook. I faw no parrots, and fuppofe there were none ; but 
on firing a gun, the firft probably ever heard in thofe 
woods, there was fuch a fcreaming of other birds on all 
fides, {ome flying to the place whence the noife came, and 
fome flying from it, that it was impoflible to hear di- 
ftinctly any other found. It was at this place that I fhot 
that curious bird called the Erkoom* in Amhara; the 
Abba Gumba, in Tigré; and here at Guanjook, Ter ef Naciba, 
or the Bird of Deftiny.. | 
On the 22d, at three quarters paft fix we left Guanjook, 
and a few minutes after paffed a {mall river called Gum- 
S fia bacca, 
* Sce the article Erkoom in the Appendix. 
