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the king’s demand being leffened, many people have left it, 
and are gone to Tcherkin. 
_Iuave feveral times, in the courfe of this work, taken 
notice of a black nation ‘called Shangalla, who furrround 
all the N. N. W. and N. E. of Abyflinia, by a belt fcarcely: 
fixty miles broad. This is called by the Abyffinians, Kolla, 
or the Hot Country, which is likewife one of their names 
for hell. Two gaps, or fpaces, made for the fake of com- 
merce, in this belt, the one at Tchelga, the other at Ras el 
Feel, have been fettled and pofleffed by ftrangers, to keep 
thefe Shangalla in awe; and here the cuftom-houfes were 
placed, for the mutual intereft of both kingdoms, before all 
intercourfe was interrupted by the impolitic expedition of 
Yafous againft Sennaar. Ras el Feel divides this nation. of 
woolly-headed blacks into two, the one weft below Kuara, 
and bordering on Fazuclo (part of the kingdom of Sen- 
naar) as alfo on the country of Agows. Thefe are the 
Shangalla that traffic in gold, which they find in the earth,, 
where torrents have fallen from the mountains ; for there 
is no fuch thing as mines in any part of their country nor 
any way of collecting gold but this; nor is there any gold 
found in .Abyffinia; however confidently this has been ad- 
vanced ; neither is there gold brought into. that kingdom 
from any other quarter but this which we are now fpeak- 
- ing of ; notwithftanding all the mifreprefentations of the 
miffionaries to make the attempts to fubdue this king- 
dom appear more lucrative and lefs ridiculous to Euro- 
pean princes. The other nation, on the frontiers of 
Kuara, has Ras el Feel on the eaft, about three days: 
journey from the Cacamoot. The natives are called Gan-- 
as PUREE PA oats 
