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pay ; this word was no fooner uttered, when, apparently 

 in a moil violent paflion, he leapt up, laid by his pipe, took 

 his Hick, and ran into the midft of them, crying out with 

 violent execrations, And who am I ? and who am I then ? a 

 girl, a woman, or a Pagan dog like yourfelves ? and who is 

 Waragna Fafil ; are you not his flaves ? or to whom elfe do 

 you belong, that you are to make me pay for the confe- 

 quences of your devilifh idolatries and fuperflitions? but 

 you want payment, do ye ? here is your payment : he then 

 tuckt his clothes tight about his girdle, began leaping two 

 or three feet high, and laying about him with his Hick 

 over their heads and faces, or wherever he could flrike 

 them. 



After this Woldo wrefted a lance from a long, aukward 

 fellow that was next him, ftanding amazed, and levelled the 

 pointathiminamanner that I thought to fee the poor peafant 

 fall dead in an inflant : the fellow fled in a trice, fo did they 

 all to a man ; and no wonder, for in my life I never faw any 

 one play the furious devil fo naturally. Upon the man's 

 running off, he cried out to my people to give him a gun, 

 which made thefe poor wretches run fafter and hide them- 

 lelves among the bufhes : lucky, indeed, was it for Woldo 

 that my fervants did not put him to the trial, by giving 

 him the gun as he demanded, for he would not have ven- 

 tured to fire it, perhaps to have touched it, if it had been to 

 have made him m after of the province. 



I, who fat a fpedator on the other fide, thought we were 

 now in a line fcrape, the evening coming on at a time of 

 the year when it is not light at fix, my baggage and fer- 

 vants on one fids of the river, myfelf and beails on the 

 4 ^other, 



