473 ‘TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
CHAP. VIL. 
- Fourney over Lamalmon to Gondar. 
T was.on account of thefe delays that we did not leave‘Ad- 
 dergey till near ten o’clock in the forenoon of the 4th of 
February. We continued. our journey along the fide ofa 
hill, through. thick wood and high grafs; then defcended 
into a fteep,. narrow valley, the fides of which had been 
fhaded with high trees, but in burning the grafs the trees: 
were confumed likewife; and the fhoots from the roots: 
were fome of them above eight feet high fince the tree: 
had thus fuffered that fame year. The river Angueah: 
runs through the middle of this valley; after receiving. 
the fmall ftreams, before mentioned, it makes its way. 
into the Tacazzé. It is a very clear, fwift-running river,, 
fomething lefs than the Bowiha. 
Wuen we had juft reached the river-fide, we faw. the 
Shum coming from the right hand acrofs us. There were- 
nine- 
