wS - TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
to eat herbs together in private upon the top of the mouns- 
tains, Thefe, ontheir return, are {hewn as miracles of ho-. 
linefs,—-lean,. enervated, and exhaufted.. Whether this is. 
wholly to be laid'to the charge of the herbs, is more than. 
I will take upon. me to decide, never having been at thefe- 
retirements of Waldubba. 
Viotent. fevers perpetually reign there. .The inhabitants 
are all of the colour of.a corpfe ; and their neighbours, the. 
Shangalla; by conftant inroads; deftroy many of them,though . 
lately they have been ftopped, as they fay, by the prayers of - 
the monks. I fuppofe their: partners,.the nuns, had their. 
fhare in it, as both of them:are:faid: to be equally fuperior - 
in holinefs and..purity of.living.to what their predeceffors . 
formerly were. But, not-to derogate from the efficaciouf-. 
nefs of their.prayers, the. zatural. caufe why the Shangalla.: 
moleft them no more, is the fmall-pox, which has greatly. 
reduced their ftrength and number, and. extinguifhed, to a: 
man, whole.-tribes of them... 
Tue watersis. both fcarce. and: bad: at Debra Toon; there~ 
being but one {pring, or fountain, and it was exceedingly. 
ill-tatted. We did not intend.to make this.a ftation; but, . 
having fent.a-fervant to Hauza to buy a mule in. room of: 
- that which the hyxna::had:eaten, we were.afraid to leave : 
our man, who. was not yet come forward, left he fhould fall : 
in with the Shum. of Addergey, who might. ftop, the mule - 
for our arrears of cuftoms. | 
TuE pointed mountain of Dagafhaha continued fil vifibles, ; 
Tet it this day by the compafs, and it bore due N.E. We had: 
nat feen any cultivated ground fince we pafled the Tacazzé. - 
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