262 THROUGH UNKNOWN AFRICAN COUNTRIES. 
plumes. On their ankles and knees were many rows of 
bells, made of ironand shaped lixe small oyster shells, that 
tinkled with every motion, and around their arms and necks 
were many rings of brass, ivory, and beads. We returned 
to camp feeling very glad indeed that we had averted a 
ficht, for the time being at any rate. I did not like, how- 
ever, the insolent way in which even the old men had 
treated us on parting, as though they thought 
H they could finish us quickly any moment they 
| chose; and I was afraid that they only re- 
strained themselves from attacking us at the 
| village because they thought they could better 
| capture all our animals by attacking the camp. 
| The Arbore were very rich. We saw thou- 
sands of live-stock of all kinds, except camels 
| and mules and ponies, and many hundred 
acres of durrha. Only about half the inhab- 
itants of the two villages we had visited were 
Arbore, the rest being Boran; but they were 
not under the rule of Abofilato. 
The third village, which is situated a little 
farther south, named Ehe Gudi, is entirely 
Arbore, and is the. largest and richest.” 1 
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thought I had seen the chiefs of the villages, 
but I was mistaken, as each village is ruled over by a 
single powerful king, who very rarely leaves his dwelling. 
He considers it beneath his dignity to go out of his house 
to attend to affairs of state, but spends his time in offering 
sacrifices to Wak, and studying the intestines of the 
slaughtered animals. Some of the richest of the Arbore 
wore loin-cloths and head-dresses of a gay-colored material, 
made in Merka and Modisha, which they had obtained by 
trade from the Boran; but the majority of them wore the 
ordinary coarse Konso cloth, made into short trousers and 
