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which have little level to run to either ocean. It is faid that 

 •the Galla, when tranfplanted into Abyfiinia, brought for 

 their particular ufe the coffee tree, and the Enfete, the ufe 

 of neither of which were before known. However, the ge- 

 neral opinion is, that both are-naturally produced in every 

 part of Abyfiinia, provided there is heat and moifcure. It 

 grows and comes to great "perfection at Gondar, but it mofc 

 abounds in that part of Maitfha and Goutto well of the Nile, 

 where there are large plantations of it, and is there almoft, 

 exclufive of any thing elfe, the food of the Galla inhabiting 

 that province ; Maitiha is nearly upon a dead level, and the 

 rains have not flope to get off ealily, but ftagnate and pre- 

 vent the fowing of grain. Vegetable food would therefore 

 %q very fcarCein Maitiha, were it not for this plant. 



• Some Who have feen my drawing of this plant, and at the 

 •fame time found the banana in many parts of the eafl 

 have thought the Enfete to be a fpecies of the Mufa. This 

 however, I imagine, is without any furt of reafon. It is true, 

 the leaf of the banana refembles that of the Enfete, it bears 

 figs, and has an excrefcence from its trunk, which is 

 terminated by a conical figure, chiefly differing from the 

 Enfete in fize and quantity of parts, but the figs of the 

 banana are in fhape of a cucumber, and this is the 

 part which is eaten. This fig is fweet though mealy, and 

 of a tafte highly agreeable, it is fuppofed to have no feeds, 

 though in fact there are four fmali black feeds in every fig 

 belonging to it. But the figs of the Enfete are not eatable ; 

 they are of a tender, foft fubftance ; watery, taftelefs, and in 

 colour and confidence fimilar to a rotten apiicot; they are 

 of a conical form, crooked a little at the lower end, about 

 -an inch and a half in length, and an inch in breadth where 



G $ thicket. 



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