350 mVER AREQUA. 
our mules in a place of security, and gave up the morning to the 
pursuit of the various species of game which abounded in the 
neighbourhood, consisting of Guinea-fowl, partridges, and deer 
of various kinds, of which we killed more than sufficient to sup- 
ply the whole party with food for the day. The river Arequa 
appears, from the width of its bed, and the body of water which 
occasionally comes down in the rainy season, to be larger than 
any other existing between the coast and the Tacazze. It is said 
to rise at a place called Assa, about ten miles only from Antalo, 
whence it runs nearly in a north-west direction, through the pro- 
vince of Avergale, until it joins the former river in the district of 
Temben, so that it probably collects in its course the various 
small streams which water the fertile province of Enderta. This 
river should appear to answer, better than any other, to the 
Coror, in Mr. Bruce's map ; but as we know that the latter is 
put down from a single mention only of such a stream in Alvarez, 
it must, had it existed, have taken its origin, as I have before 
observed, further to the eastward, the track of the Portuguese in 
1620 having certainly lain in that direction. This morning the 
atmosphere proving extremely clear, we could, for the first 
time, plainly distinguish the snow (called by the Abyssinians 
Berrit,) on the top of B^yeda and Amba Hai, the two loftiest 
summits of the mountains of Samen. Mr. Bruce having passed 
over only a lower ridge, called Lamalmon, did not believe 
the fact of snow having been ever seen on these mountains,* 
* Vide Vol. III. p. 313. From the following expression made use of by Mr. Bruce, 
in another part of his work, it appears, that he did not believe in the possibility of so light 
a substance lying on the top of a mountain under the tropics. " It is said, that snow has 
