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wifhes. I laid my hand then upon the piitols that fluck in 

 my girdle, and drew them out to give them to one of my 

 mite, when Woldo, who apprehended it was for another 

 purpofe, ran fome paces back, and hid himfelf behind Ay- 

 lo's fervant. We were all diverted at this fright, but none 

 fo much as Strates, who thought himfelf revenged for the 

 alarm he had given him by falling through the roof of the 

 houfe at Goutto. After having taken off my fafh, " Here 

 is your fafh, Woldo, faid I ; but mark what I have faid, and 

 now moll ferioufly repeat to you, Truth and good behavi- 

 our will get auy thing from me ; but if, in the courfe of 

 this journey, you play one trick more, though ever fo trifling, 

 I will bring iuch a vengeance upon your head that you fhall 

 not be able to find a place to hide it in, when not the fafh 

 only will be taken from you, but your fkin alfo will follow 

 it : remember what happened to the feis at Bamba." 



He took the fafh, but feemed terrified at the threat, and 

 began to make apologies. " Come, come, faid I, we under- 

 ftand each other ; no more words ; it is now late, lofe no 

 more time, but carry me to Geefii, and the head of the Nile 

 directly, without preamble, and fhew me the hill that fe- 

 jnrates me from it. He then carried me round to the fouth 

 fide of the church, out of the grove of trees that furrounded 

 it, " This is the hill, fays he, looking archly, that, when 

 you was on the other fide of it, was between you and the 

 fountains of the Nile; there is no other; look at that hil- 

 lock of green fod in the middle of that watery fpot, it is in 

 that the two fountains of the Nile are to be found : Geefh 

 is on the face of the rock where yon green trees are : if you 

 go the length of the fountains pull off your fhoes as you 

 did the other day, for thefe people are all Pagans, worfe 



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