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either learn her my language, or flic would reach me Galla;. 

 The party was accepted as loon as offered; the morning waa 

 frefh and cool, nor had laH night's libation any way difor- 

 dered my flomach. Strates himfelf, though afraid of Wel- 

 led Amlac, and exceedingly exafperated at the impudent be- 

 haviour, as he called it, of Meledanea, was, however, a little 

 pacified at the approach of the white cow. . Brodier, fays he 

 to Michael, we have nothing to do widi people's manners 

 2t6 long as they are civif to us : as to -this houfe, there is 

 no doubt but the men are robbers and murderers, and their 

 women wh — es ; but if they ufe us well while we are now 

 here, and we are fo lucky as to get to Gondar alive, let the 

 devil take me if ever I feek again to he at Welled Abea 

 Abbo. It was agreed to relax thaf day, and dedicate it to 

 herborizing, as alfo to the fatisfying the curiofity of our fe- 

 male friends, by anfwenng all their queflions ; and thus 

 the forenoon pafFed as agreeable as poffible. . 



Welled Amlac, a great hunter, had gone with me 

 early to a neighbouring thicket on horfeback, armed with ; 

 lances^ in fearch.of venifon, though we certainly did not 

 want provifions. We in a few minutes raifed two bohur, 

 a large animal of the deer kind, and each purfu€d his beaft; 

 mine had not run 400. yards before I overtook him, and 

 pierced him with my pike ; and the fame would have hap-- 

 pened probably to the other, had not Welled Amlac's horfe 

 put his fore- feet into a fox's hole, which threw him and 

 his rider headlong to the ground; he was nor, however, 

 hurt, but rofe very gravely, and defired me to return ; it 

 being a rule among thefe people, never to perfift when 

 anv thing unfortunate falls out in the beginning of a 

 day. 



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