THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 17 
ground, and even the fteep fides of the mountains, were cul- 
tivated, though they had ever fo little foil. 
On Wednefday the 6th of December, at eight o’clock in 
the morning, we fet out from Ribieraini; and in about three 
hours travelling on a very pleafant road, over eafy hills and 
through hedge-rows of jeffamin, honey-fuckle, and many 
kinds of flowering fhrubs we arrived at Adowa, where once 
refided Michael Suhul, governor of Tigré. It was this day 
we faw, for the firft time, the fmall, long-tailed green pa- 
roquet, from the hill of Shillodee, where, as I have already 
mentioned, we firft came in fight of the mountains of A+ 
dowa. . 
v. iii. p : CHAP. 
