504 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
houfes and poffeflions, and thefe, therefore, being refpected 
by Michael, had not been involved in, the devattation of the 
late war. The villages are all furrounded with Kol-quall 
trees, as large at the trunk as thofe we met on the fide of 
the mountain of Taranta, when we afcendedit on our journey ~ 
from Mafuah to enter into the province of Tigré; but the 
tree wants much of the beauty of thofe of Tigré; the 
branches are fewer in number, lefs thorny, and lefs in- 
dented, which feems to prove that this is not the cli 
mate for them. 
Tue 30th of October, at fix in the morning, we continued 
our journey from Bab Baha ftill rounding the lake at W. S. 
W. and on the very brink of it: the country here is all laid 
out in large meadows of a deep, black, rich foil, bearing 
very high grafs, through the midft of which runs the ri- 
ver Sar-Ohha, which, in Englifh, is the Grafly River ; it is a- 
bout forty yards broad and not two feet deep, bee a foft 
clay bottom, and runs from north to fouth into the lake 
Tzana. 
We turned out of the road to the left at Bab Baha, and 
were obliged to go up the hill; in a quarter of an hour we 
reached the high road to Mefcala Chriftos. At feven o’clock 
we began to turn more to the fouthward, our courfe being 
S. W.; three miles and a half on our right remained the vil- 
lage of Tenkel; and four miles and a half that of Tfhem- 
mera to the N. N. W.; we were now clofe to the border of 
the lake, whofe haiebae here is a fine fand. Neither the 
fear of crocodiles, nor other monfters in this large lake, 
could hinder me from {wimming in it for a few minutes, 
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