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bacca, and afterwards the river Tokoor. At half an hour 
paft eight we refted there, and three hours after came to 
the Guangue. The Guangue is the largeft river we had 
feen in Abyflinia except the Nile and Taccazé. It rifes near 
Tchelga, or between Tchelga and Nara. It joins the Tacaz- 
ze in the Barabra, in the kingdom of Sennaar. The two 
rivers when joined are called the Atbara, which gives its 
name to the province. It abounds with hippopotami, and 
crocodiles, chiefly the former, which however we thought: 
were moftly fmaller than thofe of the Nile. 
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At a quarter after one we came to Mariam-Ohbha, and’ 
at half paft three arrived at Hor-Cacamoot. Hor in that 
country fignifies the dry deep bed of a torrent, which has. 
ceafed to run; and Cacamoot, the fhade of death; fo that 
Yafine’s village, where we now took up our quarters, is call-. 
ed the Valley of the Shadow of Death: A bad omen for. 
weak and wandering travellers as we were, furrounded by 
a multitude of dangers, and fo far from home, that there- 
feemed to be but one that could bring us thither. We truft-. 
ed in Him, and He did deliver us.. | 
Hor-Cacamoor is fituated in a plain in the midft of a. 
wood, fo much only of which has been cleared away as a 
to make room for the miferable huts of which it confifts, | 
and for the {mall {pots of ground on which they fow ma- 
fhilla, or maize, to furnifh them with bread. Their other 
food confifts entirely of the flefh of the elephant and rhino-. 
ceros, and chiefly of the former; for the trouble of hunt- 
ing the elephant is not greater than chafing the rhinoceros, 
and the_difference of gain is much fuperior. The elephant 
has a greater quantity of better flefh, while. his large teeth. 
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