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the power to appreciate it, and certainly I could 

 not enjoy it. Aristides breakfasted with me this 

 morning, and I killed a sheep and presented him with 

 the meat. He promised me that, after I had left the 

 country, he would look after things at Gindar. I 

 proposed that he should take the eggs from the 

 guinea-fowl, which abound here, and put them under 

 hens, so as to bring them up tame ; as, if they were 

 fattened and kept in a civilised state, they would be 

 excellent eating. I should also like to try the ex- 

 periment of introducing rabbits, which I am sure 

 would do very well, yet perhaps too well, so as to eat 

 up every green thing. 



I started in the afternoon for Massowah, having 

 arranged that I should be carried to a place called 

 Maital, on a different road from that which we had 

 come by, but the usual one for merchants. I reached 

 Maital about dark, halted for an hour, obtained some- 

 thing to eat, and slept for awhile ; then I lay on 

 m.y angareb, and I was carried off again all through 

 the night. I thought the darkness would never come 

 to an end, and, towards morning, quite exhausted, 

 notwithstanding the jolting of the angareb, I fell 

 asleep, and woke up just at dawn : we were 

 close to the village of Moncullu. The cocks were 

 crowing, and some of the people might be seen 

 moving about. When we arrived here my coolies 



