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thick and shady covert. Before us was a house belonging to the 
Ras, in a small valley through which runs the river Gibbeh, from 
which the mansion takes its name. Our guide here desired us to 
halt, and produced for our refreshment some cold mutton, of which 
we made a very hearty meal. Pursuing our road, we passed along 
a narrow and rather deep valley, part of which had been lately 
cleared for cultivation ; the rest was thickly set with brushwood, and 
afforded a fine cover for grouse, guinea fowls, and partridges, all of 
which were in great abundance ; but we did not see a single deer, 
though the country appeared of a description highly favourable to 
these animals. This gully, as it may be called, is about five miles 
in length, and at the end of it we mounted a lofty hill, on which is 
the village of Hasemko, by the Chief of which we were received 
with much attention. Our course I reckoned to be about fifteen 
miles in a north-west direction. The thermometer on our arrival 
was 86°. 
" September 12. — We left the village at an early hour, after 
making the lady of the mansion, who was a very agreeable and 
pretty woman, a trifling present ; it having been intimated to me 
that she had been put to much inconvenience to make room for us 
yesterday evening. 
" Our road lay over the hill to the south-west, the inhabitants, 
who seem ever desirous of turning the road from cultivated plains, 
having led it in this direction to a gap in the side of the hill made 
by the falling down of a great mass of rock. We now wound 
round the summit of the hill, chiefly in a western course, till we 
reached the village of Admara, about three miles distant, above 
which is a church dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen. We here 
