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by the AfTar, the Arooffi running through the midft of that 

 diftridt. 



My anxiety to lofe no time in this journey had determi- 

 ned me to fet out this afternoon. I had for this purpofe dif- 

 patched Ozoro Efther's fervant, but when we began to ftrike 

 our tents, we were told neither beaft nor man was capable 

 of going farther that day ; in a word, the forced march that 

 we had made of 29 miles without reft, and with but little 

 food, had quite jaded our mules ; our men, too, who carried 

 the quadrant, declared, that, without a night's reft, they could 

 proceed no farther ; we were then obliged to make a virtue 

 of neceffity, and to confefs, that, fince we could go no farther, 

 we were in the moft convenient halting place poflible, ha- 

 ving plenty of both food and water, and as to protection, we 

 had every reafon to be fatisfied that we were mailers of the 

 country in which we were encamped. It was generally 

 agreed therefore to relax that day. I fet afide an hour to put 

 thefe memoirs in order, and then joined our fervants, who, 

 on fuch occafions, are always our companions, and who 

 had provided a fmall horn full of fpirits, and a jar full of 

 beer, or bouza, by offering fome trifling prefent to our com- 

 mandant the Jumper, who was much more tenacious of his 

 drink than his meat: wefwam and dabbled with great delight 

 in the Kelti, where are neither crocodiles nor gomari ; flept 

 a little afterwards, and retired into the tent to a fupper, which 

 would have been a chearful one could I have forgot that 

 Ozoro Either was fuffering. 



We now began to difcufs the motive that had induced 

 our friend Strates again to tempt the danger of the ways* 

 This fingulaj fellow, as we learged from Guebra Maiiam > 



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