THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. at 
' MamnAmmov.is a mountain‘ of ‘black ftones, almoft cal. 
eined by the violent heat of the fun. Thisis the boundary of 
the diftri€t; Samhar,. inhabited by the Shiho from Ham- 
hammou to- Taranta, i is called Hadafla ; it belongs to the Ha- 
zorta. 7 
Tuts nation, though not fo numerous as the Shiho, are: 
yet their neighbours, live in conftant defiance of the Naybe, , 
and are of a colour much refembling new copper; but are’ 
. inferior ‘to the Shiho i in fize, though very agile, -All' their’ 
fubftance is in cattle; yet they kill none of them; but live: 
entirely upon milk. They, too, want alfo an original sword” 
for bread in their language, forthe fame reafon, I fuppofe, 
as the Shiho. They have been generally fuccefsful againft 
the Naybe, and live either in caves, or in cabannes, like -ca- 
ges, juft large enough.-to hold two Petions, and covered with 
an ox’s hide. Some of the better fort of women have cop- 
per bracelets upon their arms, beads in their hair,. and a- 
tanned hide ae about their fhoulders. . ; 
. Thr nights are cold here even’ in fammer, and’ do -not’ 
allow the inhabitants to go naked as upon the reft of the 
coalt ; however, the children ‘Of: the Shiho, whom. we met 
fait, were all naked. f 
Tar 18th, at ‘half patt five in the morning, we left our~ 
ftation on the fide of the green hillat Hamhammou: for fome > 
time our road lay through a plain fo thick fet with’ acacia~ 
trees that our hands and faces were all torn and’ bloody* 
with the ftrokes of their thorny branchés. We’ then -re-- 
famed our ancient-road in the bed of the torrent, now-near=- 
