6 MAROKO. 
who brought us goats, and plenty of milk and honey, made it more 
comfortable than a better place would have proved with less hospi- 
tality. The rain continued very heavy till evening. 
"August 15.— That part of our baggage, which for want of a 
sufficient number of mules we were obliged to have conveyed by 
men, arrived in the morning under the care of our friend Guebra 
Michael. We were yesterday joined by a female Hadjee, or pilgrim, 
who had spent three years at Mecca, and was on her return to the 
distant country of the Galla. It was, I suppose, on account of the 
sanctity acquired by this long pilgrimage, that one of our chiefs, 
who was himself a Hadjee, treated her with much respect, and 
shared his coffee with her, 
" The Baharnegash of Dixan arrived at nine o'clock to take his 
leave ; he informed us that he should make haste to the presence 
of the Ras, where he expected to arrive in three days, and would 
send on for more mules for our accommodation. He told us that 
he dared not accompany us farther, having had a skirmish some- 
time back with a neighbouring tribe, in which many of the op- 
posite party had fallen ; he, however, left his son Guebra Michael 
to proceed with us two days journey on our way. We paid, by 
the advice of our guides, six dollars to the people of the house 
where we lodged, and were by no means pleased to find that diey 
w^ere extremely dissatisfied with so ample a recompense. At half 
past ten we were on our way, and having passed on the left the vil- 
lage of Maroko, built on a hill of moderate height, we found our- 
selves in a plain interspersed with hillocks. Here Captain Rudland 
shot a goose, and an Abou Gumba; the former, through the idle- 
ness of our people, escaped ; the latter we carried on to Asceriah. 
