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these injunctions, his followers, after loitering about for a short 
time, complied, though on their going away they seemed to 
regard our packages, as I thought, with a wishful eye, that very 
evidently spoke their regret at being compelled to leave them 
unexamined. 
Having thus happily got rid of these intruders, we ordered 
our mules to be prepared, and determined, notwithstanding the 
intense heat of the day, to proceed on our journey, as we felt 
that it would be by no means safe to pass the night in so unset- 
tled a neighbourhood. Our road now lay to the S, S. W. through 
a wild and uncultivated country ; we crossed the stream called 
Mai Belessan ; left the high hill of Amba Anvas on our right, 
and, after mounting a steep ascent, reached the village of Legote, 
which in appearance somewhat resembled Dixan, where we pro- 
cured accommodations for the night. The distance we had tra- 
velled from our last station may be computed at about eight 
miles ; and from the top of the hill on which Legote stands, we 
took in the evening a regular set of bearings. 
March 8th.— At five in the morning we descended from Legote, 
and soon afterwards crossed an extensive and well cultivated 
plain, to the left of which, as we proceeded southward, lay the 
mountain of Devra Damo, one of those distinguished fastnesses, 
which in the earliest periods of the Abyssinian history, served as 
a place of confinement for the younger branches of the family of 
the reigning sovereign. The reader will easily conceive, from 
the circumstance of my being a native of Lichfield, that my 
thoughts immediately recurred to the beautiful and instructive 
romance, founded on this custom by Dr. Johnson, whose character. 
