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or fhield, and only two naked fcrvants with him ; did not 

 I tell you what was the meaning of the news ?" 'I hough 

 this was fpoken in a language of which it was impoffible Am- 

 lac could know a fyllable, yet he prefcntly apprehended in 

 part what I would fay. " 1 fee, fays he, you believe what 

 I told you laft night to be falfe, and invented only to get 

 from you a prefent : but you fhall fee ; and if this day we 

 do not meet Welled Aragawi and his fokliers, you are then 

 in the right; it is as you imagine." — " You do me wrong, 

 faid I, and have not underftood me, for how fliould you. 

 Thofe white people believe too well all you told them, and 

 are only apprehenfive of your not being able to defend us, 

 being without arm_s and followers. All I faid was, that where 

 you were, armed or unarmed, there was nod anger, "-rr-" True, 

 fays he, you are now in Maitlha, and not in my coun- 

 try, vvliich is Goutto ; you are now in the worfl: country in 

 all Abyllinia, where the brother kills his brother for a 

 loaf of. bread, of which he has no need: you are in a 

 country of Pagans, or dogs, Galla, and worfe tlian Galla ; if 

 ever you meet an dd man here, he is a liranger ; all that are 

 natives die by the lance young; and yet, though thefe two 

 chieftains I mentioned fight to-day, unarmed as I am, (as 

 you well faid) you are in no danger while I am with you. 

 Thefe people of Maitllia, fliut up between the Jemma, the 

 N'le, and the lake, have no where but from the Agows to 

 get what they want ; they come to the fame market with 

 lis here in Goutto ; the fords of the Jemma, they know, are 

 in my hands ; and did they offer an injury to a friend of 

 mine, were it but to whiftle as he paffed them, they know 

 1 am not gentle; though not a Galla, they are.fenfible, 

 one day or other, I fliould call them to account, though i'C 

 ^vere in the bed-chamber of their mafter Fafil." 



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