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gcoHj ni3.t6j 3.nd. boat’s crew, of the Indiamaiij 1 
was obliged to abandon tbe drawing of the myrrh tree 
to fome more fortunate traveller. At the fame time 
that I was taking thefe pains about the myirhj 1 had de- 
fired the favages to bring me all the gums they could 
find, with the branches and bark of the trees that pro- 
duced them.^ They brought me, at different times, fome 
very fine pieces of incenfe, and at another time, a very 
fmall quantity of a bright colourlefs gum, fweeter on 
burning than incenfe; but no branches of either tree, 
though I found this latter afterwards, in another part of 
Abyffinia. But at all times they brought me quantities 
of gum, of an even and clofe grain, and of a dark-brown 
colour, which was produced by a tree called fojju . and 
twice I received branches of this tree in tolerable order; 
and of thefe I made a drawing. Some weeks after, 
walking in a Mahometan village, I faw a laige tiee, with 
the whole upper part of the trunk and the large branches 
fo covered with great boffes and knobs of gum, as to ap- 
pear monftrous : and aflving farther about the tree, I 
found that it had been brought, many years before, from 
the myrrh country by merchants, and planted thei e for 
the fake of its gum, with which thefe Mahometans fiiff- 
ened the blue Surat cloths, which they got damaged from 
Mocha, to trade in with the Galla and Abyffinians. Neither 
the tree which they called JaJJ'a^ nor the name, nor the 
gum, could allow me to doubt a moment that it was the 
fame as what had been brought to me from the myrrh 
country ; but I had the additional fatisfadion to find the 
tree 
