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a&ion of Strates, and heard him huzza ; on which they had 

 afked Woldo, as he entered inro the village, what was the 

 ' meaning of all this ? Woldo told them, that the man was 

 out of his fenfes, and had been bit by a mad dog ; which 

 reconciled them immediately to us. They, moreover, faid, 

 he would be infallibly cured by the Nile ; but the cuflom, 

 after meeting with fuch a misfortune, was to drink the wa- 

 ter in the morning failing. I was very well pleafed both 

 with this turn Woldo gave the adion, and the remedy 

 we Humbled upon by mere acciden-t, which difcovered a 

 connection, believed to fubfift at this day, between this river 

 and its ancient governor the dog-ftar. 



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