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AwashRiver that rises to the south of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and flows northeast to Lake Abba on the frontier with Djibouti, ending in a chain of salt lakes; length 800 km/500 mi. Cotton is grown along the river valley and the Koka Dam (1960) supplies hydroelectric power. Although deep inside present-day Ethiopia, the Awash River was considered by Somalis to mark the eastern limit of Ethiopian sovereignty prior to the colonial division of Somaliland in the 19th century. |
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It was an image, an image of a log awash that was different from any log in that it was alive. The South Spit was just awash with the flowing tide; the waters heaved over the hidden face of the Shivering Sand. Suddenly, half-concealed in the tumult of the foaming rollers I made out awash, something enormous, rising and falling - something spread out like a burst of foam, but with a more bluish, more solid look. |
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