GRAND CAIRO. 89 
Our first questions related to the place of his cmap. 
birth ; and of his usual residence before he left 
jihyssinia. In answer to these, he stated, that 
he was born at Gellebeddn'^, in tlie province of 
TiGKE, whose capital is Adoiua^, distant twenty- 
five or thirty days from the Nile, and sixteen 
or seventeen from Masmah upon the Red Sea ; 
that his usual place of residence, and to which 
he should return, after leaving Cairo, was a vil- 
lage about fifteen days' journey from Gondar. 
We asked him v\^hat kind of coin was circulated 
in his native province : he said that fossil salt 
was used in Tigrh as a substitute for money \ 
probable tliat linics would never have encountered the opposition he 
met with, if his writings had not been characterized by offending 
egotism. Baron De Toft's work experienced a similar fate, from the 
same cause ; and has similarly obtained, at last, the consideration to 
which, by its ^reat merit, it is justly entitled. 
(2) This place is mentioned in Mr.Salt'fi Narrative, as published by 
Lord ^«/^w/«Vr, and written GuLLYBUDDA. {See vol. \\l. jo. 71. LonA. 
I8O9.) He describes it as " a place of considerable extent and popula- 
tion." 
(3) Bruce also describes Adnwa, as bein^ the capital of Tigre. A 
view of the town accompanies Mr. Salt's Narrative, in Lord Valentlu's 
Travels, vol. III. p. 76. Lond. 1809. 
(4) Mr. Salt, speaking of a manufacture of cloth at AJowa, says, it 
circulates as money through the country ; but he adds, " Each piece 
is about sixteen cubits long, and one and three quarters wide: its value 
is thirty pieces of salt, or one dollar." Valentia's Travels, vol. III. 
;». 78. Land. 1809. Also in t;o/. III. ;>. 54, "The small currency (at 
Antalow) consisted of wedges of rock-salt, each weighing two or three 
pounds, and estimated at l-30th of a dollar." 
