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and of little efteem, owing to the lupine flowers on which the 
bees feed, and of which a great quantity covers the whole — 
face of the country; this gives a bitternefs to the greateft part 
of the honey, and occafions, as they believe, vertigo’s, or diz- 
zinefles, to thofe that eat it: the fame would happen with 
the Agows, did they not take care to eradicate the sian vin 
throughout their whole country. 
Aut this little territory of Arooffi is by much the moft- 
pleafant that we had feen in Abyflinia, perhaps it is equal 
to any thing the eaft.can produce; the whole is finely fhaded. 
with acacia-trees, I mean the acacia vera, or the Egyptian 
thorn, the tree which, in the fultry parts of Africa, produces 
the gum-arabic. Thefe trees grow feldom above fifteen or 
fixteen feet high, then flatten and fpread wide at the top, 
and touch each other, while the trunks are far-afunder, and 
under a vertical fun, leave you, many miles together, a free 
{pace to walk in a cool, delicious fhade. There is fearce 
any tree but this in Maitfha; all Guanguera and Wainade- 
ga are full of them; but in thefe laft-mentioned places, 
near the .capital, where the country grows narrower, being 
confined between the Jake and the mountains, thefe trees 
are more in the way of the march of armies, and ‘are 
thinner, as being conftantly cut down for fuel, and never 
replanted, or fuffered to replace themfelves, which they o- 
therwife would do, and cover the whole face of the coun- 
try, as once apparently they did. The ground below thofe 
trees, all throughout Aroofli, is thick covered with lupines, 
almoft to the exclufion of every other flower ; wild oats alfo © 
grow up here fpontaneoufly to a plodipial height and 
fize; capable often of concealing both the horfe and his 
rider, and fome of the ftalks being little lefs than an inch 
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