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CHE LI CUT, 
or Lobo ; particularly the former, from whom he has taken whple 
pages without any acknowledgment. 
The Ras, as I have before mentioned, having concluded a 
peace with the Galla, mutual presents were exchanged, and on 
the 20th he set out on his return, by the way of Zingilla and the 
sources of the Tacazze. On the 22d, Mr. Pearce attended some 
of the principal chiefs on a visit to Jummada Mariam, an holy 
church, which is entirely excavated out of a steep rock, and sur- 
rounded by groves of fir. This appears to be one of those singular 
excavations so minutely described by Father Alvarez,* who 
twice visited them during his stay in the country, and which were 
supposed to have been constructed in the tenth century, by one 
of the Abyssinian emperors, named Lalibala. Mr. Pearce de- 
scribed this church as very similar to the one, which I formerly 
visited on my way to Chelicut, called Abba os Guba.t As the 
plan of that church was not before given, I have thought it 
right to insert it in this place, together with a plan of the one 
visited by Mr. Pearce, which is taken from the work before re- 
ferred to, written by Father Alvarez, and which he calls " the 
Church of ourLady.'^J I have also added, in the same plate, the 
* Vide Alvarez' Description de I'Ethiopie, p. 139, et seq. and J. Ludolf s Commenta- 
rium, p. 235. " Ce sont 6glises, toutes entierement cav^es dans pierre vive, taillee d'un 
artifice incroyable : et se nomment ces ^glises Emanuel, Saint Sauveur, Sainte Marie, 
Sainte Croix, Saint George Golgota, Betbleen, Mercure et les Martyrs. 
t Vide Lord Valentia's Travels, Vol. III. This was also seen by Father Alvarez, vide 
page 119. of bis work; and near it be mentions a stream called Coror, (probably the 
Warr6,) wbich bas since been magnified into a river of far too great consequence in 
modern charts. 
t Alvarez, Description de 1558, I'Ethiopie, page 142. L'^glise de notre Dame n'est pas 
sigrande que celle de Saint Sauveur, mais elle est beaucoup plus industrieusement labour^e. 
