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pancake. When sufificiently cooked it is a hot doughy- 

 sort of flat cake ; and those people who arc lucky 

 enough to have a little red pepper eat it with the 

 bread. There is nothing of which an Abyssinian is 

 so fond as red pepper, and the quantity he manages 

 to pass down his throat is something surprising. 

 We had a good deal of rice with us, and had found 

 that by grinding the rice between two smooth flat 

 stones, which we got from the bed of the Tackazzec, 

 it made excellent flour ; and we had hot rice cakes, 

 baked in Brou's iron pan, every morning for break- 

 fast. After breakfast, if I did not go out shooting, 

 there was generally something to do in camp, either 

 to mend or put the men to work at making ropes, out 

 of the fibre of a certain tree, for lashing our things 

 together, or else sending them to cut grass for our 

 "das," or leaf-house, which we live in during the day, 

 as these bowers are always much cooler when they are 

 well thatched with grass. Sometimes we have tiffin, 

 and sometimes not. It is usually hottest between one 

 and three in the afternoon, and then it is always 

 best to be in camp. In the evening we generally 

 went out shooting till dark. The donkeys and mules, 

 having been taken to water, are brought in about five 

 o'clock and tethered ; they are left to stand till 

 dark, when the grass that has been cut is given them 

 for the night. We dined between seven and eight, 



