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We paffed the village of Dcrgate, then that of Regticar, 

 on the top of a very high hill on the left, as the other was 

 on our right. We pitched our tent about half a mile off 

 the village called Barranda, where we were overtaken by 

 our friend the Baharnagafh, who was fo well pleafed with 

 our lalt interview, efpecially the bargain of the horfe, that 

 he fent us three goats, two jars of honey-wine, and fome 

 wheat-flour. I invited him to my tent, which he imme- 

 diately accepted. He was attended by two fervants on foot, 

 with lances and fhields ; he had no arms himfelf, but, by 

 way of amends, had two drums beating, and two trumpets 

 blowing before him, founding a charge. 



He feemed to be a very fimplc, good-natured man, in- 

 deed, remarkably fo ; a character rarely found in any degree 

 of men in this country. He afked mc how I liked my horfe ? 

 faid, he hoped I did not intend to mount it myfelf ? I an- 

 fwered, God forbid ; I kept him as a curiofity. He commend- 

 ed my prudence very much, and gave me a long detail a- 

 bout what horfes had .done, and would do, on occafions. 

 Some of the people without, however, fhewed his fer- 

 vants my faddle, bridle, and ftirrups, which they well knew, 

 from being neighbours to the Arabs of Sennaar, and prai- 

 fed me as a better horfeman by far than any one in 

 that country; this they told to the Baharnagafh, who, no- 

 thing offended, laughed heartily at the pretended ignorance 

 I had fhewn him, and fhook me very kindly by the hand, 

 and told me he was really poor, or he would have taken no 

 money from me for the horfe. He mewed ib much good 

 nature, and open honeil behaviour, that I gave him a pre- 

 fent better than the firit, and which was more agreeable, as 

 lefs expected. Razors, knives, fleels for finking fire, are 



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