618 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
Brrore I ftate the account of his obfervations in his own, 
or in Kircher’s words, I have one obfervation to make re- 
garding the dates and time of the journey. That memo- 
rable day which has been fixed upon for the difcovery, is 
the 21ft of April 1618. The rains are then begun, and on 
that account the feafon being very unwholefome, armies, 
without extreme neceflity, are rarely in the field; between 
September and February at fartheft is the time the Abyfli- 
nian army is abroad from the capital, and in action. 
THERE are two nations of Agows in Abyflinia, the one 
near the fountains of the Nile, called the Agows of Damot 3 
the other near the head of the Tacazzé, in the province of 
Lafta, called the Tcheratz Agows. Now, we fee from the 
annals of Socinios’s reign, that he had feveral campaigns. 
againft the Agows. ‘The firft was in the fourth year of his 
reign, in the year 1608; his annals fay it was againft the 
Tcheratz Agow. His fecond campaign was in the feventh 
year of his reign, or 1611; that, too, was againft the Agows. 
of Lafta ; fo that if Peter Paez was with the emperor in either 
of thefe campaigns, he could not have feen the head of any 
river but that of the Tacazzé. The third campaign was in 
in 1625, againft Sacala, Geefh, and Afhoa, when the Galla 
ieee an inroad into Gojam, but retired upon the royal 
army's marching againft them, and crofled the Nile into 
their own country. Socinios upon this had advanced againft 
the Agows of Damot, then in’rebeilion alfo, and had fought 
with Sacala, Afhoa, and Geefh likewife, the clan imme- 
diately contiguous to the fources. Now this was furely 
the time when Peter Paez, or any attendant on the emperor, 
might have feen the fountains of the Nile in fafety, as the 
king’s army, in whole or in.part, muft have been encamp- 
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