provifionfor our camels. Being now without fear, of the
Arabs who hve upon the Nile, from which we were , at a
ufficient diftance, we with the, fame .view to fafety, declined
S T r r inS' bUt °ur.courfe nearly N.
Here ° r g and white fand, called Affa-Nagga
H e .e our misfortunes began, from a-circumftance we had
ot attended to. Our (hoes, that had needed conftant repair
were become at laft abfoluceiy ufelefs. and the hard ground’
from he time we palled Amour, had worn the (kin o í " a
£ £ £ & £ ? * °" v ‘ rT «Í4 *
About a mile north-weft o f us is Hambily, a rock not
confiderable in hze, but, from the plain country in which it
and fUatl i ' the apP£aranCe o f a great tower or caftle
and fouth o f it two hillocks or little hills. Thefe áre all
knd-marks .oftthe utmoft c o n fe r e n c e to caravans in Their
} urney, becaufe they are too .confiderable in f e e to be covered
at any time by the moving fands. At Alfa Nagga, Affi-
ro-baybe is fquare with us, and with the turn which the
le akes eaft ward to Korti and Dongola. The Takaki are the
on £ Nnr r? / S) r ft ° fA i a N a g g a’ and Affero-baybe up-
Í ^ Afterthefe>when the Nile has turned E. andW
are the Chaigte on both lides o f the river, on to Korti, where
e territory called the kingdom o f Dongola begins. As the
Ni e no.longer remains on our left, but makes a rem a rk
able turn, which has been m uch mifreprefented in the m in t
I put my quadrant in order, and by a medium o f three o b ’
t o o n s one o f Procyon, one o f Rigel, and one o f the middle
liar o f the belt o f Orion, I found the latitude o f Ada
Nagga tobe 190 30', which being on a parallel with the far
* * * ~ °‘ ““Ni,c «*** s™ .he L I S
that he and his party were on that road, did not venture
from home with their goods, fo that the day before, which
had been that o f the market, no one chofe to run the riik
.of attending it.
W o l d o was very eloquent in praife o f this officer the
Lamb; he faid he had a great deal more humanity than his
brother, and when he made an inroad into Gojam, or any
part o f Abyffinia, he never murdered any women, not even
thofe that were with child ; a contrary cuftom it feems prevailing
among all the Galla. I congratulated him upon
this great inftance o f his humanity, which 'he took very
gravely,as if-really intended; lie told me that it was he
tha t attacked Michael’s horfe at Limjou ry and added, that,
had it been any other, Ayto Welleta Michael’s life would
not have been fpared when he was taken prifoner. That
want o f curiofity, inattention, and abfolute indifference for
new objedts, which was remarkable in the Jumper, was
•very plainly difcernible in this chieftain likewife, and feems
,to be a charaileriftie o f the nation,
' T 'asked Waldo what became o f thofe 44 Galla who had
rtheir eyes pulled out, after the battle o f lagitta, by Michael,
■on his return to Gondar. Not one o f them, faid he, ever
.came into his own country. It was reported the hyaena ate
them upon the, Angrab, where they were turned out to
ftarve. I faved three o f them, faid I. 'Yes, anfwered he, and
others might have been faved too: and then added, in a low
voice, the hyaenas eating them at the Angrab was a ftory
contrived for the Galla ; but we that arc Fafil’s fervants
kn ow they were made away with by his order in Maitlha
and the Agow country, that none o f them m ight be feen in
V ol. Ill, ‘ 4 A their