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vants to beat up the natives ; he said it was great 



fun running from house to house trying to catch the 

 men, the women swearing that their husbands or 

 sons were away. Abyssinian servants, on occasions 

 Hke these, always filch any littb things they can 

 quietly lay their hands on, and bring them to their 

 master afterwards ; I had on several occasions to 

 punish servants for this, and mal;e them take the 

 things back. H. started in the afternoon with a little 

 more of the bao^gage. I told him w c must force our 

 way on, and, as he was now on the move, to go as 

 far as he could. It will be seen afterwards he did a 

 capital march. 



Chickut was the name of the village K. told us 

 we could camp at. It was rather a short march, 

 and I knew H. would go farther, for we had been 

 very much annoyed by these continual delays, so we 

 agreed that he should go on to the next village 

 beyond Chickut. K. then went back to Adouguada 

 to fetch up the other half of our baggage left behind ; 

 I said I would wait for him. Time went on, and 

 it got later and later. Fisk, who had stayed with 

 me, said he would go out and try to get something 

 good for dinner, in case we should have to sto[) 

 the night here. Just at sunset I saw K. in the 

 distance, kicking his old mule along as fast as he 

 could ; he rode up and said Maria Theresa had won 



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