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cannot anfwer for the orders he may have given to his ©wife 

 fcrvants; but Dixan is- mine, although the people are much 

 worfe than thofe of Dobarwa. I have written to my officers 

 there ; they will behave the better to you for this; and, as 

 you are flrong and robuft, the beft I can do for you is to 

 fend you by a rugged road, and a fafe one. 



Ac h met again gave his orders to Saloome, and we, all 

 rifing, faid the fedtah, or prayer of peace; which being over, 

 his fervant gave him a narrow web of muflin, which, with 

 his own hands, he wrapped round my head in the manner 

 the better fort of Mahometans wear it at Dixan. He then 

 parted, faying, " He that is your enemy is mine alio ; you.; 

 mall hear of me by Mahomet Gibberti," 



This finifhed a feries of trouble and vexation, not to fay 

 danger, fuperior to any thing I ever before had experienced, 

 and of which the bare recital (though perhaps too minute 

 a one) will give but an imperfect idea. Thefe wretches 

 pofiefs talents for tormenting and alarming, far beyond the 

 power of belief ; and, by laying a true fketch of them be- 

 fore a traveller, an author does him the moil real fervice. . 

 In this country the more truely we draw the portrait of man, , 

 the more we feem to fall into caricatura. 



On the 16th, in the evening, we left Laberhey; and, after 

 continuing about an hour along me plain, our grafs end- 

 ed, the ground becoming dry, firm, and gravelly, and we 

 then entered into a wood of acacia-trees of conftderable fize. . 

 We now began to afcend gradually, having Gcdem, the high 

 mountain which forms the bay of Arkeeko, on our left, and 

 thefe fame mountains, which bound the. plain of Arkeeko to 



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