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bring twenty thousand into the field ; but even this numerous body 
constitutes a force very inadequate to offensive war against an 
enemy whose habitations may be properly described as " resting 
upon the hills/' The government of Guxo is said to be guided 
by no principle of justice ; the king lives in almost total neglect, 
with only a few attendants, at Goadar, the capital of Dembea,* 
and a poor man is afraid to wear a good cloth there, lest it should 
be stripped from his back by a ferocious Gall a. 
The third or southern division of Abyssinia, (coloured green in 
the map) which is now entirely separated from the others by the 
Galla, consists of the united provinces of Shoa and Efat. 
The province of Efat lies between the 9th and 11th degree 
of latitude, and is described as a high track of land running 
north and south, gradually declining on either side into a Kolla, 
or low plain, and casting off a number of small streams both in 
an easterly and westerly direction, some of which fall into the 
Nile on one side, and the rest into the Hawush on the other ; 
two branches of which latter river are said partly to encircle the 
province. The capital of Efat is called Ankober, where the ruler 
of the country, styled Murd-azimaj, always resides, who may now 
justly be considered as an independent sovereign, the govern- 
ment having descended for many generations in a right line from 
father to son. The present Murd-azimaj is named Wussen 
Segued, who is the son of As far Wussen, and grandson of the 
* Derabea is commanded by a dependent of Guxo, yet, notwithstanding the enmity 
between these chiefs and Ras Welled Selass^, a considerable intercourse is carried on 
from Gondar to Adowa, as well as Antalo, by the two separate roads of Lamalmon and 
Inchetkaub. 
