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at Lamalmon, and infilled upon his fuffering us to depart, 

 On the other hand, he threatened to fend us to Ayto Tesfos. 

 I anfwered, " Ayto Tesfos was a friend to Ayto Aylo, under 

 whofe protection I was, and a fervant to the Iteghe, and was 

 likelier to punifh him for ufing me ill, than to approve of 

 it, but that I would not fuffer him to fend me either to Ayto 

 Tesfos, or an inch out of the road in which I was going." 

 He faid, " That I was mad ;" and held a confultation with 

 his people for about half an hour, after which he came in 

 again, feemingly quite another man, and faid, he would 

 difpatch us on the morrow, which was the 3d, and would 

 fend us that evening fome provifions. And, indeed, we now 

 began to be in need, having only flour barely fufficient to 

 make bread for one meal next day. The miferable village 

 on the clift had nothing to barter with us ; and none from 

 the five villages about the Shum had come near us, proba- 

 bly by his order. As he had foftened his tone, fo did I mine. 

 I gave him a fmall prefent, and he went away repeating his 

 promifes. But all that evening pafled without provifion, 

 and all next day without his coming, fo we got every thing 

 ready for our departure. Our fupper did not prevent our 

 fleeping, as all our provifion was gone, and we had tailed 

 nothing all that day fince our brcakfaft. 



The country of the Shangalla lies forty miles N. N. W. 

 of this, or rather more wefterly. All this diftricT: from the 

 Tacazze is called, in the language of Tigre, Salent, and Ta- 

 lent in Amharic. This probably arifes from the name being 

 originally fpelled with (Tz), which has occafioned the dif- 

 ference, the one language omitting the firft letter, the other 

 the fecond. 



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