joe TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
which is to the fouth-weft. At half paft ten we refted un- 
der the before-mentioned hill; it ftands alone in the plain, 
in fhape like a fugar-loaf, and feems almoft as regular as if 
it had been a work of art. At a quarter paft eleven we re- 
fumed our journey, our courfe always nearly. weft fouth- 
weft ; we paffed the {mall village of Bowiha, at the diftance- 
ef about 2 mile; and, on the left, about fix miles, is Gorgora, 
a peninfula that runs into the lake Tzana for feveral miles. 
THERE was one of the firft and moft magnificent church- 
es and monatteries of the Portuguefe Jefuits, in the time of 
their miffion to convert this country: Socinios, then king, 
gave them the grounds, with money for the expence; they, 
built it with their own hands, and lined it elegantly with 
cedar. The king, who was a zealous Koman Catholic, chofe 
afterwards a country-houfe for himfelf there, and encou- 
raged them much by his prefents and by his charity ; it is 
ene of the pleafanteft fituations in the world; the vaft ex- 
panfe of the lake is before you; Dembea, Gojam, and Mait- 
fha, flat and rich countries all round, are in view; and the 
tops of the high hills of Begemder and Woggora clofe the 
profpect. 
Tue lake here, I am told, has plenty of fith, which is 
more than can be faid for many of the other parts of it; 
the fith are of two kinds, both of them feemingly a {pecies of 
what the Englifh call dream. I never could make them to 
agree with me, which I attribute to the drug with ‘which 
they are taken; it 1s of the nature of mx vomica, pounded in 
a morter, and thrown into ftreams, where they run into the 
lake; the fith, feeding there, are thus intoxicated and taken; 
however, it would admit of a doubt of this being the rea- 
2 fon, 
