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DICHORA. 
sight of Abba Garima. At the distance of about five miles, our 
road lay below the hill on which stands the village of Occabessa, 
then partly in ruins, but which was formerly the residence of old 
Ras Michael, after he had quitted the busy scene of politics. The 
church is named after his favourite Emperor, Tecla Haimanout. 
Hence we kept winding round many hills till we reached the vil- 
lage of Angara. Here the door was shut against us; so we pro- 
ceeded to Dichora, where we procured a small house, and good 
accommodation for the night. The chief of the former village came 
in, and made his peace by bringing bread, booza, milk, and two 
goats, to which the man of the house made an addition of one, 
after having in vain pressed me very much to accept a dollar's worth 
of cloth in lieu of it. 
" September — After travelling about six miles, we came into 
our old track, near the spot where we met the poor woman with her 
blind deaf and dumb child. We passed below the mansion of Basha 
Guebra Eyut, who was gone to Antalow. In crossing along the 
plain at the bottom of Abbo Samuel, we saw several very small and 
beautiful birds, in their habits not unlike the linnet. I dismounted 
with my gun, and after waiting patiently for some time, at length 
got a shot at one in a bush, which I luckily killed, much to the 
astonishment of several chiefs, who, with their followers, had all 
stopt to observe me; after which, at their request, I allowed them 
to examine the gun, which excited the admiration of all. In the 
course of the day I killed five more birds of different kinds, two at 
one shot, which completely established my character as a sports- 
man, among my fellow travellers, many of whom were chiefs, on 
their way to the muster at Antalow. While we were halting by the 
