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<ended by the fhot to let us know they were at hand, tho’ 
it was not till near midnight before our long-eared compa- 
nions joined their mafters, ; 
We fotind it impoffible to pitch our tents, from the ex- 
treme wearinefs in which our laft night’s exertion had left 
us: But there was another reafon alfo; for there was not 
earth enough covering the bare fides of Taranta to hold 
faft a tent-pin; but there were variety of caves near us, 
and throughout the mountain, which. had ferved for houfes 
to the old inhabitants; and in thefe found a quiet and 
not inconvenient place of repofe, the night of the 2oth of 
November. 
At this fide of the mountain of Taranta, which we had 
pafled, was thick-fet with a fpecies of tree which we had 
never before feen, but which was of uncommon beauty 
and curious compofition of parts; its name is fo/-quall*. 
Though we afterwards met it in feveral places of Abyffinia, 
it never was in the perfection we now faw it in Taranta. 
On the a2rft, at half paft fix in the morning, having en- 
couraged my company with good words, increafe of wages, 
and hopes of reward, we began to encounter the other half 
of the mountain, but, before we fet out, feeing that the afs 
of the ftranger Moor, which was bit by the hyzna, was in- 
capable of carrying his loading further, I defired the reft 
every one to bear a proportion of the loading till we fhould 
eetive 
* See the article kol-quall in the appendix. 
