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the Lamb himfelf had a long and ferious converfation with 

 him ; Woldo told me it was all fpent in regretting the horfe's 

 ill- fortune, and Falll's cruelty, in having bellowed him up- 

 on a white man, who would not feed him, or ever let him 

 return to Bizamo. Bizamo is a country of Galla fouth of 

 the Nile, after it makes its fouthmoft turn, and has fur- 

 rounded the kingdom of Gojam. I was better pleafed with 

 this genuine mark of kindnefs to the horfe, than all the 

 proofs of humanity Woldo had attributed to his chieftain 

 for not frequently putting to death pregnant women. When 

 I remarked this, Bad men { bad men! all of them, fays Wol- 

 do ; but your Ras Michael will be among them one of thefe 

 days, and pull alltheireyes outagain; and fo much the better. 



At Roo we left the direct road which leads to Bure, the 

 refidence of the governor of Damot, towards which place 

 the route of the army was directed; fo I took leave, as I hoped, 

 for ever of my brethren the Galla, but ftill continued to 

 drive the horfe before me. We turned our face now directly 

 upon the fountains of the Nile, which lay S. E. by S. ac- 

 cording to the compafs. At a quarter before noon we faw 

 the high fharp-pointed mountain of Temhua, Handing 

 fingle in the form of a cone, at about 18 miles diftance, and 

 behind this the mountain of Banja, the place where Fafil 

 almoil exterminated the Agows in a battle foon after his 

 return to Bure, and to revenge which the king's laft fatal 

 campaign was undertaken in Maitma, terminated by his 

 retreat to Tigre. 



Here Strates,whilft amufmg himfelf in the wood in fearch 

 of new birds and beads for our collection of natural hif- 

 tory, fired his gun at one of the former, diftinguifhed by 



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