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that he and his party were on that road, did not venture 

 •from home with their goods, fo that the day before, which 

 had been that of the market, no one chofe to run the rifk 

 of attending it. 



Woldo was very eloquent in praife of this officer the 

 Lamb; he faid he had a great deal more humanity than his 

 brother, and when he made an inroad into Gojam, or any 

 part of Abyflinia, he never murdered any women, not even 

 thofe that were with child ; a contrary cuftom it feems pre- 

 vailing among all the Galla. 1 congratulated him upon 

 this great inttance of his humanity, which he took very 

 gravely, as if really intended ; he told me that it was he 

 that attacked Michael's horfe at Limjour ; and added, that, 

 had it been any other, Ayto Welleta Michael's lire would 

 not have been fpared when he was taken prifoner. That 

 want of curiofity, inattention, and abfolute indifference for 

 new objects, which was remarkable in the Jumper, was 

 very plainly difcernible in this chieftain likewile, and feems 

 .to be a character i (lie of the nation. 



I asked Woldo what became of thofe 44 Galla who had 

 their eyes pulled out, after the battle of Fagitta, by Michael, 

 on his return to Gondar. Not one of them, faidhe, ever 

 came into his own country. It was reported the hyama ate 

 them upon the Angrab, where they were turned out to 

 ilarve. I faved three of them, laid I. Yes, anfwered he, and 

 others might have been faved too: and then added, in a low 

 voice, the hyamas eating them at the Angrab was a ftory 

 contrived for the Galla ; but we that are Faiil's fervants 

 know they were made away with by his order in Maicfiia 

 and the Agow country, that none of them might be feen in 



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