572 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
Tuts, known by the name of the Firft Cataract of the Nile, 
did not by its appearance come up to the idea we had form- 
ed of it, being fcarce fixteen feet in height, and about fixty 
yards over; but in many places the fheet of water is inter- _ 
rupted, and leaves dry intervals of rock. The fides are nei- 
ther fo woody nor verdant as thofe of the catara¢t of the Affar; 
and it is in every fhape lefs magnificent, or deferving to be 
feen, than is the noble catara&t at Alata before defcribed, 
erroneoufly called the Second Cataract ; for below this there 
is a water-fall, nearly weft of the church of Bofkon Abbo, 
not much above the place where we fwam our horfes o- 
ver in May, and lefs than this firft cataract of which lam — 
fpeaking, and nearer the fource; there is another ftill 
fmaller before the Nile joins the river Gumetti, after falling 
from the plains of Sacala ; ‘and there are feveral ftill {maller 
between the fountains andthe junction of the Nile with 
the river Davola; thefe laft mentioned, however, are very 
infignificant, and appear only when the Nile is low: in the 
rainy feafon, when the river is full, they fcarcely are dif- 
tinguifhed by ruffling the water as it pafles. 
Havine fatisfied my curiofity at this catara&t, I galloped , 
back the fame road that I had come, without having feen a 
fingle perfon fince I left Goutto. Fafil’s horfe went very 
pleafantly, he did not like the fpur, indeed, but he did not 
need it. On our arrival we found a cow upon the point of 
being killed; there was no appearance of any fuch to be 
found when I fet out for the cataraé, but the diligence and 
{agacity of Woldo had overcome that difficulty. By a par- 
ticular manner of crying through his hands applied to his 
mouth, he had contrived to make fome beafts anfwer him, 
: who 
