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Our company was now increafed by our former bnd- 

 lord at Goutto, where we were obliged to Woldo's ftrata- 

 gem for difcovering the cow that was hid. We fat down 

 chearfully to dinner. Welled Amiac's fall had not fpoiled 

 his appetite ; I think he ate equal to four ordinary men. f, 

 for the moft part, ate the venifon, which was made into an 

 excellent dilh, only too much fluffed with all kind of fpices. 

 Fafd's wife alone feemed to have a very poor appetite, not- 

 withflanding her violent fits of laughter, and outward ap- 

 pearance of chearfulnefs. A melancholy gloom return- 

 ed upon her beautiful face, that feemed to indicate a 

 mind not at eafe. She was of a noble family of Galla, 

 which had conquered and fettled in the low country of Na- 

 rea. I wondered that Fafil her hulband had not carried 

 her to Gondar. She faid her hufband had twenty other 

 wives befides her, but took none of them to Gondar; 

 which was a place of war, where it was the cuftom ro mar- 

 ry the wives of their enemies that they had forced ro fly, 

 Fafil will be married therefore to Michael's wife, Qzoro Ef- 

 ther. I could not help being flariiled at this declaration, re- 

 membering that I was here lofing my time, and forgetting 

 my word of returning as foon as poluble ; but we had, for 

 many months, lived in fuch conilant alarms, that it was ab- 

 folutely as needful to feize the moment in which we could 

 repofe our mind, as to give refl to the body. 



In the afternoon we diftributcd our prefents among the 

 ladies. Fafd's wife was not forgot ; and the beautiful Me- 

 le(fi:aneawas covered with beads, handkerchiefs, and ribbands 

 of all colours. Fafd's wife, on my firft requeft, gave me a 

 lock of her fine hair from the root, which has ever fmce, 



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