On the n th we continued our journey in our former
road, till we arrived at the church o f A b b o ; 'we then
turned to the right, our courffe N. by E. and at three quarters
paft nine refted under the mountain on the right o f
the v a lle y ; our road lay itill through Goutto, but the country
here is neither fo well inhabited1 nor fo pleafant as the1
weft fide o f the Nile. At eleven, going N. N. E. we palled
the church o f Tzion, about an eight part o f a mile diftant
to E. N. E. ; we here have a diftin&view o f the valley,thro’
w h ich runs the Jemma, deep,, wide, and fu ll o f trees,, w h ich
continue up thefides o f the mountains. Amid. Amid; At a;
quarter paft eleven we palled a fmall -ftream coming from
the weft, and at twelve another: very dangerous river called;
Utchmi, the ford o f which is in the midft o f two cataradts',,
and the fi^eano.very rapid; aftyr yalEng this rivgr, we entered
a narrow road in the midft o f brufhwood, pleafant;
and agreeable, and fu ll o f a kind o f foxes * o f a bright
go ld colour. At" three quarters paft one we halted at the:
houfe o f Shalaka Welled Amlac, with, whom I was well
acquainted at G o n d a r h i s houfe is. called. Welled Abea
Abbo, from a church o f Abbo about an eight part o f amile:
diftant-.
I have deferred, tillthe-prefentoccafibn, the introducing:
c f this remarkable charaaer to my reader, that I m ig h t .
not trouble him to g o back to paft tranfadtions that are n o t
o f Confequence enough to interrupt the thread o f my narrative^
Soon after I had feen part o f - the royal family, tha t
had
* I fuppofe this to he the animal called topus Aureus; it ia near as iarge-as a wolfj.and.
lives u£on, moles».
had been infe&ed with the fmall-pox, happily recovered,
and was fettled at Kofcam in a houfe o f my own, formerly
belonging to Baiha Eufebius, my friend Ayto Aylo
recommended to my care a man from Maitiha, with two.
fervants, one o f whom, with his mailer, had been taken ill
o f the intermitting fever. As I was fupplied plentifully
with every neceflary by the Iteghe, the only inconvenience
that I differed by this was, that o f bringing a ftranger and
a difeafe into my family. But as I was in a ftrange country
, and every day flood in need o f the affiftance o f the
people in it, it was neceffary that I fhould do m y part,
and make myfelf as ufeful as poffible when the opportunity
came in my way. I therefore fubmitted, and accordin
g to Ayto Aylo’s defire, received my two patients with
the beft grace poffible ; and the rather, as I was told that
he was one o f the moil powerful, refolute, and beft-attend-
ed robbers in all Maitiha; that he lay diredlly in m y way
to the fource o f the Nile ; and that, under his proteblion, I
migh t bid defiance to Woodage Afahel, confidered as the
g rea t obftacle to my making that; journey.
T he fervant was a poor, timid wretch, exceedingly afraid
o f dying.; He adhered ftridlly to his regimen, and was very
ifoon recovered. It was not fo with Welled Amlac ;.he had,
as I faid, another fervant,-who never, that I faw, came within
the door ; but as often as I was ou t attending my other
patients, or with the Iteghe, which was great part o f the
•morning, h e ftole a vifit to his mailer, and brought him
as much raw .meat, hydromel, and fpirits, as, more than
bnce, threw him into a fever and violent delirium. Luckily
I was early informed of. this by the fervant that was recovered,
and who did not doubt but this was, to end in his
A 2 mailer’s