T his fever prevailed in Abyflinia in all low grounds and
plains, in the neighbourhood o f all rivers which run in valleys
; it is really a malignant tertian, which, however, has
fo many forms and modes o f intermiflion that it is impoili-
ble for one not o f the Faculty to deferibe it. It is not in all
places equally dangerous, but on the banks and neighbourhood
o f the Tacazze it is particularly fatal. The valley
where that river runs is very low and fultry, being fu ll o f
large trees. In Kuara, too, it is very m o r ta l; in Beleflen
and Dernbea lefs fo ; in Walkayt it is dangerous ; but not
fo much in Tzegade, Kolia, Woggora, and Waldubba. It,
does not prevail in high grounds or mountains, or in places
much expofed to the air. This fever is called Ne~
dad, or b u rn in g ; it begins always with a fliivering and
headach, a heavy eye, and inclination to v om it ; a violent
heat follows, which leaves little intermiflion, and ends generally
in death the third or fifth day. In the laft itage o f
the diftemper the belly fwells to an enormous fize, or fome-
times immediately after death, and the body within an in-
ftaijt fmells moil infupportahly; to prevent which they bury
the corpfe immediately after the breath is out, and often
within the hour. The face has a remarkable yellow appearance,
with a blackilh caff, as in the laft ftage o f a drop-
fy or the atrophy. This fever begins immediately with the
fun-ihine, after the firft rains, that is, while there are intervals
o f rain and fun-ibine ■: it ceafes upon the earth being
thorou ghly foaked in July and Auguft, and begins again
in September ; but now, at the beginning , o f •November, it
finally .ceafes everywhere.
T he country about Gopgue is both fertile and plealant,
a ll laid out in wheat, and the grain good. They were now
i in
In the midft o f their harveft, but there were fome places, to
which the water could be conducted, where the corn was
juft appearing out o f the ground. From Googue we have
an extenfive view o f the lake Tzana, whilft the mountains
o f Begemder and Karoota, that is, all the ridge along Fog-
gora, appear diftipdtly enough, but they are'funk low, and
near the horizon.
On the 14th, at three quarters paft feven in the morning
we left the inhofpitable village Googue ; our road la y i t
b y W. up a fmall hill. At h a lf paft eight w e croITed the v illage
o f Azzadari, in which runs a fmall river, then almoft
ftagnant, o f the fame name. At three quarters after eight,
the church o f Turcon Abbo, being a quarter o f a mile to
our right. At three quarters after nine we paired the river
Avolai, coming from N. W. and which, with all the other
ftreams above mentioned, fail into the lake : from this begins
Degwafia. .At h a lf paft ten we relied h a lf an hour.
At eleven continued our journey N. by W. and, at h a lf after
eleven, entered again into the great road o f Bure, by Kelti.
All the Country from Googue is bare, unpleafant, unwhole-
fome, and ill-watered. Thofe few ftreams it has are now
Handing in pools, and are probably ftagnant in January and
February. The people, too, are more miferable than in any
other part o f Maitlha and Gout to, J
As we are now lea vin g Maitlha, it w ill be the place to
fay fomething concerning it in particular. Maitlha is either
proper, or what is called fo by extenfion. Maitlha Proper is
bounded on the weft by the Nile, on the fouth b y the river
Jemma, dividing it from Goutto; and, on the other
fide o f Amid Amid, b y the province o f Damot; on the fouth
b y