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‘banks of the river Kelti, at a quarter after fix in the morn- 
ing 2. 
Tue Keiti here is a large river; at the ford it was four feet 
decp, though now the dry uote it is here called the Kel- tt 
ti Branti, becaufe fome miles higher up it is joined by a con- 
fiderable river called the Branti, which rifes to the wefltward 
in the high lands of the Agow’s Quaquera, and both thefe | 
reams, when united, fall into the Nile a little below. The 
banks of this river are exceedingly fteep and dangerous, 
the earth loofe, falling in great lumps down into the ftream; 
it is a red bole of a foapy quality; the bottom, too, and the 
afcent on the other fide are foft; the water, though trou- 
bled and muddy, is fweet and well-tafted. We faw 
lights and fires en the oppofite bank, and had begun 
io unloofe the tent, when we received a meflage by two 
Galla on foot, armed with lances and fhields, that we 
fhould not encamp there, as our-horfes and mules would 
probably be ftolen, but defiring us to pafs the river forth- 
with, and pitch our tent among them. 
I asxep Shalaka Woldo who thefe were? He faid, they 
were an advanced poft of Welleta Yafous, who had taken 
up that ground for the head-quarters to-morrow ; that they 
were all Galla, under a famous partifan, a robber, called the 
Yumper ; and, by the bye, he added, {peaking foftly in my 
ear, that there was not a greater thief or murderer in all 
the country of the Galla. I paid him my compliments up- - 
on the judicious choice he had made of a companion and 
a protector for us; to which he anfwered, laughing, 
The better, the better; you fhall fee how it is the ‘hell 
ter, As it was neceflary t to load the mules again, t the tent 
and. 
