THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 



557 



of no real fcrvice, as every Amharic foldier would have 

 done. On the other hand, his alacrity and refolution, in 

 the moment he thought us in danger, exhibited him to our 

 view as having on both occasions juft the qualities we could 

 have defircd. We now, therefore, fhewecl him the utinoft 

 civility, fpread a table-cloth on the ground by the brock, 

 mixed our honey and liquid butter together in a plate, and 

 laid plenty of tefT bread befide it. We invited the Lamb to 

 lit down and breakfaft with us, which he did, each of us 

 dipping our hand with pieces of bread alternately into the 

 dim which contained the honey ; but Strates, whofe heart 

 was open, for he felt very gratefully the Lamb's attention 

 to fave him from being murdered by the Agows, pulled out 

 a large piece of raw beef, part of the bullock we killed at 

 Kelti, which he had perfectly cleared from all incumbrance 

 of bones, this he gave to the Lamb, defiring him to divide 

 it among his men, which he did, keeping a very fmall pro- 

 portion to himfelf, and which he ate before us. Drink we 

 had none, but the water of the brook that ran by, for my 

 people had linimed all our other liquors at Kelti after I was 

 in bed, when they were taking their leave of Gucbra Ma- 

 nam, Ozoro Either' s fervant. 



It was now time to purfue our journey ; and, to fhew our 

 gratitude for the real Tervice this Lamb intended to have 

 rendered us, I gave him four times the quantity of tobacco 

 he had got before, andfo in proportion of every other trifle; 

 all thefe he took with abfolute indifference as formerly, 

 much as if it had been all his own ; he expreffed no fort of 

 thanks either in his words or in his countenance ; only while 

 at breakfaft faid, that he was very much grieved that it had 

 been but a falfe alarm, for he heartily denred that fome rob- 

 bers 



