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journey, at forty minutes paft ten we were. gratified, at laft,_ 
with the fight of Gondar, according tomy.computation about: 
ten miles diflant. The king’s palace (at leaft the tower of 
it) is diftintly feen, but none of the other houfes, which are 
covered by the multitude of wanzey-trees growing in the- 
town, fo that it appears one thick, black. wood.. Behind it. - 
is Azazo, likewife covered with trees. On a hill isthe large- 
church-of:Tecla: Haimanout, and ‘the river below it makes. 
it diftinguifhable; ftill further on is the great. lake Tzana,. 
which terminates our horizon. . 
Ar forty-five minutes paft ten we began to afcend about> 
two miles through a broken road, having on our right, in» 
the valley below, the river Tchagafla; and here. begins the- 
territory of that name.. At fifty-five minutes paft ten, de-- 
{cending ftill the hill, we pafled a large fpring of water, call-. 
ed Bambola, together with feveral plantations of fugar-canes . 
which. grow here from the feed. At eleven o’clock the vils. 
lage Tchagafla:was about half a mile diftant from us on: 
our right, on the other-fide of the river. It 1s inhabited by - 
Mahometans, as is Waalia; another {mall one near it. At: 
twelve o’clock we paffed the river Tchagafla overa bridge of» 
three arches, the middle of which is Gothic, the two leffer.- 
Roman. This bridge, though {mall, is folid and well ce-. 
mented, built with ftone by order of Facilidas, who pro-- 
bably employed thofe of his fubjets who had retained the: 
arts of the Portuguefe, but not their religion. . 
Tue Tchagafla has very fteep, rocky banks : It is fo deep, 
though narrow, that, without this bridge, it fcarce would ' 
be paflable. We encamped at a {mall diftance from it, but: 
nearer: 
