1 7 2 SPOJi T IN ABYSSINIA. 



better, but the ride up from the river tired me a good 

 deal. 



Feb. 20. — My complaint is about the same, but I do 

 not suffer so much pain from it. I took three doses 

 of opium, but this medicine makes one feel very- 

 weak. I amused myself in the afternoon learning 

 an Abyssinian game called Galanift, which is played 

 in the following way : twelve small holes are dug in 

 the ground, six in a row opposite each other ; four 

 pellets, or bullets, are put into each hole ; A takes 

 one row, and B the other. They sit down opposite 

 each other, and the object of the game is to take 

 the adversary's bullets by certain moves, which are 

 all made from left to right. It is something like 

 the game called Solitaire, but is very complicated, 

 and requires the exertion of your powers of mental 

 arithmetic to understand it. 



