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but for this latter, if difficult to procure, he compromised for fifty 
pieces of cloth, valued at about one dollar each. He owned that 
his father had paid a tribute double the amount of this in the time 
of Ras Michael. 
" I sent to the Ras in the evening, and mentioned Captain Rud- 
land's arrival, saying, that we would pay our compliments to him 
whenever he might appoint. He fixed upon seven o'clock, but af- 
terwards put it off till the morning. The thermometer was 64° in 
the evening. There fell a little rain in the afternoon. 
September 1 1. — On rising in the morning, we were much sur- 
prised to receive salaams from the Ras, and information that he was 
gone ; nor was it, till after much enquiry, that I could ascertain that he 
had gone on a hunting party, and would not be back until evening. 
It was not without much regret that I left Captain Rudland without 
an interpreter; but every preparation being niade in Muccullah 
for our departure, I was unwilling to lose any more time, and ac- 
cordingly set out with my attendants for Adowa. The view of the 
village of Muccullah from the bottom of the hill is extremely pic- 
turesque ; but as we had a long journey before us, I was not able 
to spare time for a sketch. We first went over the plain of Jam- 
bela, in a N. N. W. direction. The whole of this plain, extending 
about eight miles in length, and from two to four in breadth, was 
in a high state of cultivation, or rather of preparation for it, as 
the inhabitants were busily employed in ploughing. It contains 
at least forty inhabited villages, besides several in ruins. After- 
wards we turned off to the westward over a barren hill, where the 
road was much incommoded by loose stones and shrubby bushes 
and trees, which, as we advanced, were so closely set as to form a 
