. The earth and its inhabitants .. . t ^ of breenwich 58° 10 6 Miles. missionaries, employed, not for the evangelisation of the inhabitants, but for the manufacture of harness, weapons, and materials for war. Gafat was at that time the arsenal of Abyssinia. The watercourses of Debra-Tabor flow to Lake Tana through the Eeb, which latter river, not far from Gafat, forms a superb cascade nearly 70 feet high. West of Debra-Tabor, on a lowland promontory of the plateau, are the ruins of the Castle of Arengo, the " Versailles of the Negus," built beneath some large trees, on the edge of a
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . t ^ of breenwich 58° 10 6 Miles. missionaries, employed, not for the evangelisation of the inhabitants, but for the manufacture of harness, weapons, and materials for war. Gafat was at that time the arsenal of Abyssinia. The watercourses of Debra-Tabor flow to Lake Tana through the Eeb, which latter river, not far from Gafat, forms a superb cascade nearly 70 feet high. West of Debra-Tabor, on a lowland promontory of the plateau, are the ruins of the Castle of Arengo, the " Versailles of the Negus," built beneath some large trees, on the edge of a precipice over which falls a cascade, its waters disappearing in the virgin forest below. Thermal springs from 100° to 107° F. abound in this region. The most frequented are those of Wanziglieh in the valley of southern Gumara. The neighbouring village is the only place in Abyssinia where vines have been introduced. MaHDERA-MaRIAM—KOARATA. The basin of the Gumara, like that of the E,eb, has also a town famous in the local records. Mahdera-Mariam, or " Mary's Rest," stands between two affluents
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