192 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
Shimbra Zuggan, and encamped about two hundred yards 
from it. The valley of that name is more broken and un- 
even than any part we had met with fince we afcended La- 
malmon. The valley called alfo Shimbra Zuggan, is two 
miles and a half N. by E. on the top of a hill furrounded 
with trees. Two {mall brooks, the one from S.S. E. the 
other from S. E. join here, then fall into the rivulet. 
Tue 13th, at feven inthe morning, we proceeded ftill along 
the plain; at half paft feven came to Arradara; and after- 
wards faw above twenty other villages on our right and left, 
ruined and deftroyed from the loweft foundation by Ras Mi- 
chael in his late march to Gondar. At half paft eight the 
church of Mariam was about a hundred yards on our left. 
At ten we encamped under Tamamo. The country here is 
full of people ; the villages are moftly ruined, which, in fome 
places, they are rebuilding. Itis wholly fown with grain 
of different kinds, but more efpecially with wheat. For the 
production of this, they have everywhere extirpated the wood, 
and now labour under a great {carcity of fuel. Since we pafl- 
ed Lamalmon, the only fubftitute for this was cows and 
mules dung, which they.gather, make into cakes,-and dry 
in the fun. From Addergey hither, falt is the current 
money, in large purchafes, fuch-as fheep or other cattle; 
cohol, and pepper, for fmaller articles, fuch as flour, butter, 
fowls, &c. At Shimbra Zuggan they firft began to inquire 
after red Surat cotton cloth for which they offered us thir- 
teen bricks of falt; four peeks of this red cloth are efteem- 
ed the price of a goat. We began to find the price of pro- 
vifions augment in a great proportion as we approached the 
capital. 
“423 : THIs 
