490. _ MOCFIA. 
rains are not so periodical as in the rest of Tigre, owing possiblj 
to the extensive forests with which the country is covered. Be- 
tween Wojjerat and Lasta lies a small and low district called 
Wofila, bordering on the lake Ashangee; here the Galla have 
become mixed with the natives of the country, many of the 
former professing the Christian religion. 
The rugged and almost inaccessible mountains which form the 
province of Lasta, have been before noticed. It is frequently 
called by the Portuguese writers Bugne, but for what reason I 
could never ascertain, as that name is at present unknown in the 
country. Bora and Salowa also form two mountainous districts 
northward of Lasta, and between them and the Tacazze lie the 
comparatively low countries of Waag and GSualiu, which are 
inhabited by Christian Agows. 
Still advancing northward, the province of Avergale follows in 
succession, consisting of a narrow line of country, which extends 
about fifty miles in a north and south direction, along the eastern 
bank of the Tacazze. This district is also in the hands of the 
Agows, of who^e manners and language some account has been 
before given. I have in addition to remark, that their buildings 
seem invariably to be put together without mortar, and that the 
better sort of houses are constructed in the characteristic form of 
ancient Egyptian temples, as may be observed in a sketch which 
has been given in one of the early plates of this work. On the 
eastward side of the Tacazze, in this latitude, rises the lofty pro- 
vince of Samen, which may undoubtedly be considered as the 
highest point of land in Abyssinia ; the whole range of its moun- 
tains extending in a northerly and southerly direction, about 
