70 APPENDIX. 



camoot, in Ras el Feel, where the "Wooginoos grows abun- 

 dantly, and where dyfenteries reign continually, Heaven 

 having put the antidote in the fame place where grows 

 the poifon. 



Some weeks before I left Gondar I had been very much 

 tormented with this difeafe, and I had tried both ways of 

 treating it, the one by hot medicines and aftringents, the 

 other by the contrary method of diluting. Small dozes of 

 ipecacuanha under the bark had for feveral times procured 

 me temporary relief, but reiapfes always followed. My 

 flrength began to fail, and, after a fevere return of this dif- 

 eafe, I had r at my ominous manfion, Hor-Cacamoot, the val- 

 ley of the fhadow of death, a very unpromiling profpeclv 

 for I was now going to pafs through the kingdom of Sen- 

 naar in the time of year when that difeafe moil rages. 



Sheba, chief of the Shangalla, called Ganjar, on the 

 frontiers of Ktiara, had at this time a kind of embafly or 

 HiefTage to Ras el Feel, lie wanted to burn fome villages 

 in Atbara belonging to the Arabs jeheina, and wiilied Ya- 

 £mc might not protect the-m : they often came and fat with ; 

 me, andone of the-m hearing of mycomplaint, andtheappre- 

 tienfions I annexed to it, feemed to make very light of both,, 

 and the reafon was, he found at the very door this fhrub, 

 the ilrong and ligneous root of which, nearly as thick as a- 

 parfnip, was covered with a clean, clear, wrinkled bark, of 

 a light- brown colour,, and which peeled eafily off the root.. 

 The bark was without fibres to the very end, where it 

 fplit like a fork into two thin diviiions. After having 

 cleared the infide of it of a whitifli membrane, he laid it to 



i in the fun, and then would have bruifed it between two-' 



fiones„ 



