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THE SOURCE OF THE NILE 587 
on this fide of the mountain, falls into the Abola. We then 
left the valley of Abola on our right, and began to trawel 
along the fides of the mountains on the weft. At three 
quarters after eight we paficd a violent torrent called Kar- 
nachiuli, which falls from north-eaft into the Abola. At 
‘ mine we again defcended into the valley, and, a few mi- 
nutes after, came to the banks of the Caccino, which flows 
from the north juft above, and joins the Abola. Here we 
halted for a little to reft our men, and to adjuft thoroughly 
the minutes of our journey, that the whole might appear 
> an a diftinc&t manner, in the map cine Tintended to make on 
my return to Gondar. 
At half paft nine we again fet out, and, a few minutes 
. after, pafled the river Abola, which gives its name to the 
valley into which we had defcended, and receives many lef- 
fer ftreams, and is of confiderable breadth. I could difco- 
ver no traces of fifh either in it or in any river fince we left 
the Affar, from which circumftance I apprehend, that, in 
thefe torrents from the mountains, almoft-:dry in fummer, 
and which run with vatt rapidity in winter, the {pawn 
and fith are both deftroyed in different feafons by different 
caules. | 
Arter coafting fome little time along the fide of the val- 
dey, we began to afcend a mountain on the right, from 
which falls almoft perpendicularly a fmall, but very violent 
‘ftream, one of the principal branches of the Abola, which 
empties itfelf into the Nile, together with the other branch, 
a ftill more confiderable ftream, coming from eaft fouth-eatt 
along the valley between Litchambara and Aformafha. At 
eleven o’clock our courfe was fouth by eaft, and we pafled 
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