114 . TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
Tuis river has its name from a beautiful tree, which cox 
vers both its banks. This tree, by the colour of its bark 
and richnefs of its flower, is a great ornament to the banks 
of the river. A variety of other flowers fill the whole level 
plain between the mountain and the river, and even fome 
way up the mountains. In particular, great variety of jefla- 
min, white, yellow, and party-coloured: The country feem- 
ed now to put on amore favourable afpect; the air was 
much frefher, and more pleafant, every ftep we advanced af- 
ter leaving Dixan; and one caufe was very evident; the 
country where we now pafled was well-watered with clear 
running ftreams; whereas, nearer Dixan, there were few,, 
and all flagnant.. ) 
Tue 5th, we defcended a {mall mountain for about twenty- 
minutes, and pafled the following villages, Zabangella, about 
a mile N..W.; at a quarter of an hour after, Moloxito, half 
a mile further S. E.; and Manfuetemen, three quarters of a 
mile E.S.E. Thefe villages are all the property of the A- 
buna; who has alfo a. duty upon all merchandife pafling 
there ; but Ras Michael had confifcated thefe laft villages. 
on account of a quarrel he had with the laft Abuna, 4£Ya-. 
goube.. 
We now began firft to fee the high mountains of A». 
dowa, nothing refembling in fhape to thofe of Europe, nor,, 
indeed, any other country. Their fides were all perpendicu-. 
lar rocks, high like fteeples, or obelifks, and broken into a 
thoufand different forms. 
Ar half paft eight o’clock we left the deep valley, whereim 
runs the Mareb W.N. W., at the diflance of about nine miles: 
4 i} above: 
