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the molt valuable prefents in this country, of the hardware 

 kind. 



The Baharnagafh now was in fuch violent good fpirits, 

 that he would not go home till he had feen a good part of 

 his jar of hydromel finifhed ; and he little knew, at that time, 

 he was in the tent with a man who was to be his chief cu- 

 flomer for horfes hereafter. I faw him feveral times after 

 at court, and did him fome fervices, both with the king and 

 Ras Michael. He had a quality which I then did not know: 

 With all his fimplicity and buffoonery, no one was braver 

 in his own perfon than he; and, together with his youngeft 

 fon, he died afterwards in the king's defence, fighting brave- 

 ly at the battle of Serbraxos. 



At five o'clock this afternoon we had a violent mower 

 of hailftones. Nothing is more common than aggravation 

 about the fize of hail ; but, {looping to take up one I thought 

 as large as a nutmeg, I received a blow from another juft 

 under my eye, which I imagined had blinded me, and which 

 occafioned a fwelling all the next day. 



I had gained the Baharnagafh's heart fo entirely that it 

 was not poflible to get away the next day. We were upon 

 the very verge of his fmall dominions, and he had ordered 

 a quantity of wheat -flour to be made for us, which he fent 

 in the evening, with a kid. For my part, the mare I had 

 taken yefterday of his hydromel had given me fuch a pain 

 in my head that 1 fcarce could, raife it the whole day. 



It was the 29th we left our flation at Barranda, and had 

 fcarcely advanced a mile when we were overtaken by a 



party 



