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at Gondar, and even when the fun was vertical, it never came 
but with the wind blowing directly from Amid Amid. 
AT ten minutes paft three o’clock we crofied the {mall 
river Iworra, in the valley of Abola; it comes from the 
eaft, and runs weftward into that river. At a quarter after 
four we halted at a houfe in the middle of the plain, or 
valley. This valley is not above a mile broad, the river 
being diftant about a quarter, and runs at the foot of the 
mountains. This village, as indeed were all the others 
we had feen fince our crofling the Nile at Goutto, was fur- 
rounded by large, thick plantations, of that fingular plant 
the Enfete, one of the moft beautiful productions of nature, — 
as well as moft agreeable and wholefome food of man. It 
is faid to have been brought by the Galla from Narea, firft 
to Maitfha, then to Goutto, the Agows, and Damot, which 
laft is a province on the fouth fide of the mountains of A- 
mid Amid. This plant, and the root, called Denitch, (the 
fame which is known in Europe by the name of the Jeru- 
falem artichoke, a root deferving more attention than is 
paid to it in our country,) fupply all thefe provinces with 
food. 
We were but feldom lucky enough to get the people of 
the viNages to wait our arrival; the fears of the march of 
the Galla, and the uncertainty of their deftination, made 
them believe always we were detachments of that army, to 
which the prefence of Fafil’s horfe driven conftantly before us. 
very much contributed: we found the village where we a- 
lighted totally abandoned, and in it only an earthern pot, with 
a large flice of the Enfete plant boiling in it; it was about a 
foot in length, and ten inches broad, and was almoft ready 
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