THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. S77, 
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G Ena, Poy XH. 
Leave Goutto- aed of the Moon---Roguery of Woldo our Guide--~ 
Arrive at the Source of the Nile. 
T was the 3d of November, at eight o’clock in the morn- 
ing, that we left the village of Goutto, and continued, 
for the firft part of the day, through a plain country full 
of acacia-trees, and a few of other forts; but they were all 
pollards, that is, ftunted, by having their tops cut off when 
young, fo that they bore now nothing but {mall twigs, or 
branches ; thefe, too, feemed to have been lopped yearly. 
As there appeared no doubt that this had been done pur- 
pofely, and for ufe, I afked, and was informed, that we were 
now in the honey country, and that thefe twigs were for 
making large bafkets, which they hung upon trees at the 
fides of their houfes, like bird-cages, for the bees to make 
their honey in them during the dry months ; all the houfes 
we paffed afterwards, and the trees near them, were fur- 
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