588 " TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
near a church, dedicated to the Virgin, on our left. The cli-. 
mate feemed here moft agreeably mild, the country covered: 
with the moft lively verdure, the mountains with beautiful 
trees and fhrubs, loaded with extraordinary fruits and 
flowers. I found my fpirits very much raifed with thefe plea- 
fing {cenes, as. were thofe of all my fervants, who were, by 
our converfation, made geographers enough. to know we 
were near approaching to the end of our journey. Both 
Strates and I, out of the Lamé’s hearing, had fhot a variety of 
curious birds and beafts. All but Woldo feemed to have ae- 
quired. new. ftrength and vigour. He continued in his air” 
of defpondency, and feemed every day to. grow more and. 
more weak. At.a quarter paft eleven we arrived. at the: 
top of the mountain, where we, for the firft time, came in: 
fight of Sacala, which extends in the plain below from weft 
to the point of fouth, and there joins. with the miller of 
Geeth.. 
SacaLaA, full of {mall low: villages, which, however, had‘ 
efcaped the ravages of the late war, is the eaftermoft branch: 
of the Agows, and famous for the beft honey.. The fmall’ 
river Kebezza, running from. the eaft, ferves as. a. boundary: 
between Sacala and.Aformatha ; after joining two other ri- 
vers, the Gometti and the Googueri, which we prefently, 
came to, after a fhort courfe nearly from S. E. to N. W. ite 
falls into the Nile a little above its junction,with the Abola.. 
Ar three-quarters paft eleven we crofled the river Kebez-- 
_#a, and defcended into. the plain of Sacala; ina few minutes 
we alfo. pafled the Googueri, a more confiderable ftream. 
than the former; it is about fixty feet. broad, and perhaps. 
eighteen inches. apes, very clear and rapid, running over. a. 
rugged,, 
