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one on the right, then one on the left ; they both fell dead 

 on the ground ; a great ihout immediately followed from 

 the fpectators below, to which I feemingly paid no attention, 

 pretending abfolute indifference, as if nothing extraordinary 

 had been done. I then difmounted from my horfe, giving 

 him and my gun to my fervant, and, fitting down on a 

 large Hone, I began to apply fome white paper to flaunch 

 .a -fmall fcratch the firfl horfe had given me on the leg, by 

 rubbing it againft a thorn tree : as my trowfers, indeed, 

 were all flained with the blood of the firfl horfe, much cut 

 by the fpur, it was generally thought I was wounded. 



Fasil on this fent for me to come immediately to him, 

 having juft got up from a fleep after a whole night's de- 

 bauch. He was at the door of the tent when I began ri- 

 ding my own horfe, and, having feen the mots, ordered the 

 kites immediately to be brought him : his fervants had la- 

 boured in vain to find the hole where the ball, with which 

 I had killed the birds, had entered ; for none of them had 

 ever feen fmall-fhot, and I did not undeceive them. I had 

 no fooner entered his tent than he afked me, with great 

 -earnellnefs, to fhew him where the ball had gone through. 

 I gave him no explanation ; but, if you have really an in- 

 .clination to kill me, faid I, you had better do it here, where 

 I have fervants that will bury me, and tell the King and the 

 Iteghc the kind reception you have given ftrangers whom 

 .they have recommended. He afked what I meant ? What was 

 the matter now ? and I was going to anfwer, when Welleta 

 Michael told him the whole ftory, greatly in my favour, in- 

 deed, but truly and plainly as to the trick about the horfe. 

 The Fit-Auraris Woldo faid fomething to him in Galla, 

 which plainly made the matter worfe. Fafil now feemed in 

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