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and courtfhip was but lofs of time, which always might be 
employed better to the fatisfaction of both. Thefe people 
are lefs gay than thofe at Kella, and their converfation more 
rough and peremptory. They underftood both the Tigré 
language and Amharic, although we fuppofed it was in 
compliance to us that they converfed chiefly in the former. 
Our tent was pitched at the head of Ingerohha, on the 
north of the plain of Tabulaqué. This river rifes among 
the rocks at the bottom of a little eminence, in a fmall 
ftream, which, from its fource, runs very fwiftly, and the 
water is warm. ‘The peafants told us, that, in winter, in 
time of the rains, it became hot, and fmoked. It was in 
tafte, however, good; nor did we perceive any kind of mi- 
neral in it. Tabulaqué, Anderafla, and Mentefegla belong 
to the Shum of Addergey, and the viceroy of Samen, Ayto 
Tesfos. The large town of Hauza is about eight miles 
Mfouth-and-by-eaft of this. 
‘On the 28th, at forty minutes paft fix o’clock in the morn- 
‘ing, we continued our journey ; and, at half paft feven, faw 
the {mall village Motecha on the top of the mountain, half a 
mile fouth from us. At eight, we croffed the river Aira; and, 
at half paft eight, the river Tabul, the -boundary of the di- 
ftrict of Tabulaqué thick covered with wood, and efpecially a 
fort of cane, or bamboo, folid within, called there Shemale, 
which is ufed in making fhafts for Javelins, or light darts 
thrown from the hand, cither on foot or on horfeback, at 
hunting or in war. ; 
We alighted on the fide of Anderaffa, rather a fmall 
ditream, and which had now ceafed running, but which 
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