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pon of offence or defence ; for a man of confequence, as he 

 was, could not fuppofe a pofiibility of danger while he was 

 in the territory of his mafter. Sometimes he had a long 

 pipe in his hand, being a great fmoker ; at other times, a 

 fticfodf about three feet long, fomething thicker than one's 

 thumb, with which he dealt about him very liberally, either 

 to man, woman, or beaft, upon the flighteft provocation ; he 

 was bare-legged and footed, and without any mule, but kept 

 up with us eafily at whatever pace we went. With all this 

 he was exceedingly fagacious and cunning, and feemed to 

 penetrate the meaning of our difcourfe, though fpoke in a 

 language of which he did not underftand a fyllable. 



As for Shalaka Welled Amlac, he was a man whom I 

 fhall hereafter mention as having been recommended to 

 me by Ayto Aylo foon after my coming to Gondar. I did 

 not, however, choofe to let Fafil know of this connection, 

 for fear he might lead him to fome gainful imposition for 

 his own account in the courfe of my journey through 

 Maitflia. 



At a quarter pail two o'clock of the 31ft of October we 

 halted for a little on the banks of the river Chergue, a 

 fmall and not very rapid ilream, which coming from the 

 fouth-weft, runs N. E. and lofes itfelf in the lake Tzana. At 

 three o'clock in the afternoon we paffed the fmall river of 

 Dinglebef, and in a quarter of an hour after came to a vil- 



je -of that nan d upon the top of a rock, which we 



:ended ; here the n ad comes clofe to the end of the lake, 

 Lit and the rock is a very narrow pafs through 



tich all pro rom theAgows and Maitfha mult go ; 



\vl e is any difturbance in the fouth part 



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