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TRAVELS IN ABYSSINIA. 
the sea, the mountains, or the land of the Moors, 
and should let Christians alone. The locusts pre- 
sent were then dismissed, to carry this admoni- 
tion to their brethren. Accordingly, as soon as 
the intelligence could be conveyed, the whole 
body, it is asserted, put themselves in motion, 
some flying before ^ and some after the missionaries. 
A violent thunder storm, which soon after arose, 
was doubtless more efficacious, and the dead lo- 
custs were soon after seen piled up in heaps along 
the banks of the rivers. 
The party, in a short time^ arrived at Caxumo, 
(Axum). They describe particularly its anti- 
quity, its church, obelisk, and other ruins. No- 
thing of consequence thence occurs, till they ar- 
rived at the kingdom of Angot. This region is 
described as extremely fertile, being watered by 
streams almost innumerable, which maintain per- 
petual verdure. Seed-time and harvest continue 
together without intermission during the whole 
year. The people, however, are harassed by the 
vicinity of the Dobas, a Moorish tribe, who hold 
it unlawful for any man to marry till he has put 
twelve Christians to death. The travellers were 
here astonished by seeing churches, often of great 
extent, cut out of the solid rock. In one of them, 
called St Saviour, the body of the church is 200 
palms long, and 120 broad, with five aisles, an 
extensive open circuit and entrance, all excavated 
