THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. gor 
afd foon after a fmaller, called Ghelghel Derma. Inthe 
afternoon, at a quarter paft three, we pafled another river, 
called Gavi-Corra; thefe, like the others, all point as radii 
to the center of the lake, in which they empty themfelves. 
A little before four o’clock we encamped on the fide of the 
river Kemona. Upon the hill, on the other fide of the river, 
ftands the village of that name; it was full of cattle, very 
few of which we had feen during the fore-part of the jour- 
ney; we had all that day travelled fix hours and a quarter, 
which we computed not to exceed 14 miles: the reafon of 
this flownefs was the weight of my quadrant, which, though 
divided into two, required four men to carry it, tied upon 
bamboo, as upon two chair-poles. The time-keeper and 
two telefcopes employed two men more. We pitched our 
tent on thefide of the river, oppofite to the village, and there 
paffed the night. 
On the 29th of October, at feven in the morning, we left 
our ftation, the river Kemona; our direction was W. S. W.. 
after, about an hour, we came to a church called Abba 
Abraham, and a village that goes by the fame name; it is 
immediately upon the road on the left hand. At the diftance 
of about a mile are ten or twelve villages, all belonging to 
the Abuna, and called Ghendi, where many of his predecef- 
fors have been buried. The low, hot, unwholefome, woody 
part of the Abyffinian Kolla, and the feverifh, barren pro- 
vince of Walkayt, lay at the diftance of about fourteen or 
fixteen miles on our right. We had been hitherto afcend- 
ing a gentle rifing-ground in a very indifferent country, 
the fides of the hill being tkirted with little rugged wood, and 
full of fprings, which join as they run down to the low coun- 
try of Walkayt. We faw before us a fmall hill called Guarré, 
which 
