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without order, the only benefit expected from them being 
the fhade. At fome fmall diftance is the village Azazo, ori- 
ginally built for the accommodation of the king’s fervants 
while he refided there, but now chiefly occupied by monks 
belonging to the large church of Tecla Haimanout, which 
is on a little hill adjoining. Azazo, though little, is one 
_ of the moft chearful and pleafant villages im the neighbour- 
hood of Gondar. The lemon-tree feems to thrive better 
and grow higher than the orange; but the houfe itfelf 
is going faft to ruin, as the kings of this country have 
a fixed averfion to houfes built by their predeceffors. 
Tue Dumaza is a very clear and pleafant ftream, run- 
ing brifkly over a {mall bed of pebbles: both this river and 
the Shimfa come from Woggora on the N. W. they pafs the 
hill of Kofcam, called Debra Tzai, join below Azazo, andj; 
traverfing the flat country of Dembea, they meet the Angrab, 
which paffes by Gondar, and with it fall into the Tacazzé, 
or Atbara. . TIOs 
At noon we paffed a fmall rivulet cailed Azzargiha, and, 
foon after, the Chergué, where there began a mot violent 
ftorm of rain, which forced us, much againft our will, into 
the village, one of the moft miferable lever entered; it con- 
fitted of {mall hovels built with branches of trees, and co- 
vered with thatch of ftraw. Thefe rains that fall in the lat- 
ter feafon are what the natives very much depend upon, 
and without which they could not fow the latter crops ; 
for, though it rains violently every day from May tothe 
beginning of September, by the end of. October the 
ground is fo burnt that the country would be unfit for 
culture. g Rigs: “3 
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