Dandera

The army truck carrying Tessay drove back through the village of Debra Maryam, and then turned off on to the track that followed the Dandera river downstream towards the escarpment of the Abbay gorge.

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Now the path followed the Dandera river for a while.

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For an hour he led them away from the Dandera rier and up over the high ground above the valley, into an area of thick scrub and up-thrust ridges of weathered limestone.

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From the village of Debra Maryarn Boris took a branch road that ran alongside the Dandera river directly south, wards.

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From there the torn fragments were washed down the diverted Dandera river to join, at last, the wider and more stately waters of the Blue Nile. he waters pouring through the gap in the dam i wall picked up the yellow front-loader and tumbled it over the waterfall into the chasm as though it were a child's toy.

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The Dandera river, guardian of the tomb down all the ages, had resumed its duty.

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This one at the Dandera river is the reputed burial site of St. Frumentius, the saint who introduced Christianity to Ethiopia from the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople in the early third century.

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Let us further suppose that Taita was indeed pointing us towards the second waterfall at the Dandera river. just what do we look for when we get there?

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She recognized immediately the enlargements of the photographs that Nicholas had taken at the putative site of Taita's. dam on the Dandera river, and others that he had taken in the ancient quarry that Tamre had shown them.

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"Yes, and the confluence of the Dandera river with the Abbay is over there, below those cliffs."

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