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lar cafe, is to be found in the manners of the country. 
They fay they may lawfully eat what is killed ‘by the lion, 
but not by the tiger, hyena, or any other beaft. Where they 
learned this doctrine, I believe, would not be é@afy to an- 
{wer; but it is remarkable, even the Falafha themfelves 
acbinite this diftin@tion in favour of sae Lions} “Ole i 
Ar noon we crofled the ivan ee which rifes at Ade 
Shiho, a place on the’S. W. of the province of Tigré; and, 
after no very long courfe, having been once the boundary 
between Tigré and Midré Bahar, (for fo the country’ of the 
Baharnagatfh was called) it falls into the Mareb, or ancient 
Aftufafpes. It was the firft river, then actually running, that 
we had feen fince we pafled Taranta; indeed, all the {pace is 
but very indifferently watered. This ftream is both clear 
and rapid, and feems to be full of fifh. We continued for 
fome time along its banks, the river on’ our left, and the 
mountains on ourright, through a narrow plain, till we 
came to Tomumbuflo, a high pyramidal mountain, on the 
top of which’is ‘a convent of monks, who do not, however, 
refide there, but only come hither upon certain feafts, when 
they keep open houfe and entertain all that vifit them. 
The mountain itfelf is of porphyry. 
‘THERE we encamped by the river’s fide, and were obli- 
ged to ftay this and the following day, for a duty, or cuftom, 
to be paid by all pafléngers. Thefe duties are called Awides, 
which fignifies gifts ; though they are levied, for the moft 
part, in a'very rigorous and rude manner; but they are e- 
ftablifhed by ufage in particular fpots 5 atid are, in fact, a 
regality annexed to the eftate. - Such places are called Ber, 
pafes; which are often’ met with in the names of places 
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