S5 6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



the beauty and variety of its plumage. I flopt to make a 

 rough fketch of it, which might be finifhed at more leifure : 

 this was fcarcely done, and we again moving forwards on 

 our journey, when we heard a confufion of fhrill, barbarous 

 cries, and prefently faw a number of horfemen pouring 

 down upon us, with their lances lifted up in a poflure 

 ready to attack us immediately. The ground was woody 

 and uneven, fo they could not make the fpeed they feemed 

 to defire, and we had juft time to put ourfelves upon our 

 defence with our firelocks, mufquets, and blunderbufles in 

 our hands, behind our baggage. Woldo ran feveral paces 

 towards them, knowing them by the cry to be friends, even 

 before he had feen them, which was, Fafil ali, Fafd ali — 

 there is ?ione but Fafil that com?natids here. Upon feeing us with- 

 out any marks of difcompofure, they all flopt with Woldo, 

 and by him we learned that this was the party we had 

 palled commanded by theZa;//Z>, who, after we had left him,' 

 had heard that live Agoxv horfemen had pa/Ted between the 

 army and his party, and from the mot he had feared they* 

 might have attempted fomething againft us, and he had' 

 thereupon come to our aiGftance with all the fpeed pofV 

 fible. 



Thus did we fee that this man, who, according to our 

 ideas, feemed in underftanding inferior to moll of the brute- 

 creation, had yet, in executing his orders, a difcernmentf 

 punctuality, activity, and fen fe of duty, equal to any Chris- 

 tian officer who mould have had a like commiffion ; he 

 now appeared to us in a quite different light than when 

 we firft had met him; and his inattention, when we were 

 with him, was the more agreeable, as it left us at our entire 

 liberty, without teazing or moleiling us, when he could be 



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