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valued to any party. On the contrary, Yafine was a tried man, 
an excellent horfeman, ftrong, active, and of known courage, 
having been twice with the late king Yafous in his inva~- 
fions of Sennaar, and both umes much wounded there. It 
‘was impoffible to difpute his title to preferment; but I had 
not formed that idea of my own fuccefs that I fhould be 
able to be of any ufe or afliftance to him init. Kellais in 
lat. 14° 24’ 34” North. 
_Ir was in the afternoon of the 4th that we fet out from 
Kella; our road was between two hills covered with thick 
wood. On our right was a cliff, or high rock of granite, 
on the top of which were a few houfes that feemed to hang 
-over the cliff rather than ftand upon it. A few minutes 
after three o’ clock we paffed a rivulet, and a quarter of an 
hour afterwards another, both which run into the Mareb. 
We ftill continued to defcend, furrounded on all fides with 
mountains covered with high grafs and brufhwood, and a- 
‘bounding with lions: At four, we arrived at the foot of 
the mountain, and paffed a {mall ftream which runs there. 
We had feen no villages after leaving Kella. At half paft 
four o'clock we came to a confiderable river called An- 
gueah, which we croffed, and pitched our tent on the far- 
ther fide of at. It was about fifty feet broad and three in 
depth. It was perfectly clear, and ran rapidly over a bed of 
white pebbles, and was the largeft river we had yet feen in 
Habefh. In fummer there is very little plain ground hear 
it but what is occupied by the ftream; it is full of {mall 
fith, in great repute for their goodnefs. 
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