THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. $$$ 



ed as this was, and returning to very diftant countries, per- 

 haps never to be afTembled again ; yet this man was cho- 

 fen bv one that perfectly knew he was above all others ca- 

 pable of the trull he had repofed in him ; he was about 55 

 years of age, was by birth an Agow, and had ferved Paul's 

 father from his infancy, when Kafmati Efhte fuccceded to 

 the government of Damot, upon old Faiil's death* ; he had 

 been his fervant likcwife, as had young Fafil, fo they were 

 both at one time fellow-domeflics of Kafmati liftite. 



When Fafil had flain this nobleman, and fucceeded to 

 1 lis fathers government of Damot, Shalaka Woldo was 

 taken into his fervice as an old fervant of his father; it 

 feemed his merit had not entitled him to further advance- 

 ment ; he had no covering on his head, except long, buihy, 

 black hair, which ju't began to be mingled with grey, but 

 no beard, the defect of all his countrymen. He had a cot- 

 ton cloth thrown about his moulders in many different 

 forms, pccaiionally as his fancy fuggefted to him ; but, un- 

 lefs at night, laid it generally upon one of the mules, and 

 walked himfelf, his body naked, hi;, moulders only covered 

 with a goat's fkin in form of what the women call a tippet ; 

 he had alfo a pair of coarfe cotton trowfers that reached to 

 the middle of his thigh, and thefe were fattened at the 

 waiftband by a coarfe cotton falh, or girdle, which went fix 

 or feveri times about his waifl, and in which he ftuck a 

 crooked knife, the blade about ten inches long, and three 

 i iches where broader!, which was the only weapon he wore, 

 id ferved him to cut his meat, rather than for any wea- 

 v. iii. 3 x pon 



'■ The psrlbnhere called oIJ Fafil, is Kafmati Waragna, in the time of Yaious II. 



