7h. TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
of Abyflinia: Yet, from very attentive and frequent obfer- 
vation, I found that the fky-lark at Mafuah fang the fame 
notes as in England. It was obfervable, that the greateft 
part of the beautiful painted birds were of the jay, or mag- 
pie kind: nature feemed, by the finenefs of their drefs, to 
have marked them for children of noife and impertinence, 
but never to have intended them for pleafure or medita- 
tion. 
Tue reafon of the Hazorta making, as it were, a fixed 
-ftation here at Tubbo, feems to be the great exuberancy 
of the foliage of thefe large trees. Their principal occupa- 
tion feemed to be to cut down the branches moft within 
their reach ; and this, in a dry feafon, nearly ftripped every 
tree ; and, upon failure of thefe, they remove their flocks,,. 
whatever quantity of grafs remained. 
Tue fycamores conflitute a large proportion of thefe 
trees, and they are everywhere loaded with figs; but the 
procefs of caprification being unknown to thefe favages,. 
thefe figs come to nothing, which elfe might be a great re- 
fource for food at times, in a country which feems almoft 
deftitute of the neceflaries of life. 
We left Tubbo at three o’clock in the afternon, and we: 
wifhed to leave the neighbourhood of the Hazorta. At four,. 
we encamped at Lila, where we paffed the night in a nar- 
row valley, full of trees and brufhwood, by the fide of a ri- 
vulet.. Thefe fmall, but delightful ftreams, which appear 
on the plain between Taranta and the fea, run only after 
October. When the fummer rains in Abyflinia are ceafing,. 
they begin again on the eaft fide of the mountains ; at other 
3: times, 
