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and plunder; into thefe they always relapfe; mutual en- 

 mity follows in confequence. 



The country of the Agows, called Agow Midre, from its 

 elevation, muft be of courfe temperate and wholefome ; the 

 da/s, indeed, are hot, even at Sacala, and, when expofed to 

 the fun, we are fenfible of a fcorching heat ; but whenever 

 you are feated in the fhade, or in a houfe, the temperature 

 is cool, as there is a conitant breeze which makes the 

 fun tolerable even at mid day, though we are here but 10* 

 from the Line, or a few minutes more. 



Though thefe Agows are fo fortunate in their climate, 

 they are not faid to be long-livers ; but their precife age is 

 very difficult to afcertain to any degree of exaclnefs, as they 

 have no fixed or known epoch to refer to ;. and, though 

 their country abounds with all the necefTaries of life, their 

 taxes, tributes, andfervices, efpecially at prefent, are fo mul- 

 tiplied upon them, whilft their diitreiles of late have been 

 fo great and frequent, that they are only the manufacturers 

 of the commodities they fell, to fatisfy thefe conftant exor- 

 bitant demands, and cannot enjoy any part of their own 

 produce themfelves, but live in mifery and penury fcarce to 

 be conceived. We faw a number of women, wrinkled and 

 fun- burnt fo as fcarce to appear human, wandering about 

 under a burning fun, with one and fometimes two children 

 up:>n their back, gathering the feeds of bent grafs to make a 

 kind of bread. 



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