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little prefent at taking my leave, which he feemed furprifed 

 at ; and, very much contrary to my expectations, had iome 

 difficulty about receiving, faying, he was afhamed that he 

 had not any return for us ; that he was a foldier, and had 

 nothing but the lance in his hand and the goat's fkin on his 

 moulders, neither of which he could be fure to poffefs for 

 twenty-four hours ; he then told us that Fafil had, by that 

 time, pitched his tent at Bamba, within a mile of us, and 

 was to difpatch the wild Galla from thence to their own 

 country : he gave us a man who, he faid, would take care 

 of us, and defired us not to difmifs him till we had feen 

 Fafil, and not to pitch our tent, but rather to go into one of 

 the empty houfes of Bamba, as all the people had fled. 

 We now parted equally contented with each other ; at the 

 fame time I faw he fent off another man, who went fwiftly 

 on, probably to carry advice of us to Falil : we had ftaid. 

 with him fomething lefs than half an hour. 



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