ABHA. 
we passed over flat and poor ground ; after which we came, by a 
shght descent, to another stream called Nuzeranch. About three 
hundred yards before we reached it, I was fortunate enough to get a 
shot at the black eagle of Bruce, which was perched on the top of 
a high bush. I wounded it in the head : but it still had strength to 
rise into the air, where it flew in a circle six times round, and 
then fell. I was much delighted with this addition to our collec- 
tion, which was now growing pretty considerable. Bruce s drawing 
we found to be very correct. 
" We stopped by the side of Nuzeranch for nearly two hours, 
baked some bread, made an excellent repast, and afterwards bathed 
in the stream. As the mode of our baking bread is somewhat 
curious, and may hereafter be useful to travellers, I shall here 
describe it. Our flour, (which was generally the unsifted produce 
of barley, ground between two stones), was first made up with a 
little water into dough. It was then flattened out, and a stone (of 
the hardest consistence we could find) which had been in the 
mean time heated red hot, was put into the center of the dough 
which was afterwards completely closed over the stone into the 
form of a round ball. It was then put upon the clearest part of 
the fire, and in a few minutes produced us excellent cakes ; at least 
what we at that time considered as such. This mode of baking 
bread is in common use with travellers in Abyssinia. From Nuze- 
ranch the country is flat, barren, and covered with brushwood. Hence 
we passed between two hills wdth rocky summits, like castles, and 
about four miles farther fell into our old track to the south of that 
hill where we first saw an Abyssinian market. After proceeding 
about two miles and a half we reached Abha. Baharnegash Subhart 
