THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. $35 
the Lamb himfelf had a long and ferious converfation with 
him; Woldo told me it was all fpent in regretting the horfe’s 
il-fortune, and Falil’s cruelty, in having beftowed him up- 
~.6n a white man, who would not feed him, or ever let him 
return to Bizamo. Bizamo is a country of Galla fouth of 
the Nile, after it makes its fouthmoft turn, and has fur- 
rounded the kingdom of Gojam. I was better pleafed with 
this genuine mark of kindnefs to the horfe, than all the 
proofs of humanity Woldo had attributed to his chieftain 
for not frequently putting to death pregnant women. When 
I remarked this, Bad men! bad men! allof them, fays Wol- 
do; but your Ras Michael will be among them one of thefe 
days, and pull alltheireyes outagain; and fo much the better. 
At Roo we left the direct road which leads to Buré, the 
refidence of the governor of Damot, towards which place 
the route of the army was directed; fo I took leave, as I hoped, 
for ever of my brethren the Galla, but ftill continued to 
drive the horfe before me. We turned our face now direCtly 
upon the fountains of the Nile, which lay S. E. by S. ac- 
cording to the compafs. Ata quarter before noon we faw 
the high fharp-pointed mountain of Temhua, ftanding 
fingle in the form of a cone, at about 18 miles diftance, and 
behind this the mountain of Banja, the place where Fafil 
almoft exterminated the Agows in a battle foon after his 
return to Buré, and to revenge which the king’s laft fatal 
campaign was undertaken in Maitfha, terminated by his 
retreat to Tigre. 
Herz Strates, whilft amufing himfelf in the woodin fearch 
of new birds and beafts for our collection of natural. hif- 
tory, fired his gun at one of the former, diftinguifhed by 
sae ¢Az the 
