THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, 93 
CHAP. IV. 
tourney from Dixan to Adowa, Capital of Tigré. 
T was on Noy..25th, at ten in the morning, we left Dixan, 
defcending the very fteep hill on which the town is fitu- 
ated. It produces nothing but the Kol-quall tree all around 
it. We paffed a miferable village called Hadhadid, and, at 
eleven o’clock, encamped under a daroo tree, one of the fi- 
neft [have feenin Abyflinia, being 74 feet diameter, with a 
head {preading in proportion, ftlanding alone by the fide 
of a river which now ran no more, though there is plenty 
of fine water full ftagnant in its bed. This tree and river is 
the boundary of the territory, which the Naybe farms from 
Tigré, and ftands within the province of Baharnagath, called 
Midré Bahar. , 
Haci Aspetcaper had attended. us thus far before he 
left us; and the noted Saloome came lkewife, to fee if 
fome occafion would offer of doing us further mifchief ; but 
the king’s fervants, now upon their own ground, began to 
take upon them a proper confequence.. One of them went 
to 
