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cut from the buttocks of the animal yet aUve. After 

 fome horns of hydromel, he had paiTed to the other fjde, 

 where he was received with flill more afFedion, if poffible, 

 by Welleta Michael, and there he began again to eat the 

 raw meat with an appetite as keen as if he had fafted for 

 whole days ; he then configned us to Ayto Welleta Michael, 

 his friend and mine, who furnifhed us with a fervant to con- 

 duct us on our way, while he himfelf remained that night 

 at the ford among the combatants. He advifed us to ad- 

 vance as far as poffible, for all that country was deftroy- 

 ed by a. malignant fever which laid all waile beyond Dela- 

 kus. 



Wb left the ford at a quarter pafl five in the evening, and, 

 purfuing our journey north, we pafTed the fmall town of De- 

 lakus, continuing along the hill among little fpots of brufli- 

 wood and fmall fields of corn intermixed At half pafl; fix 

 pafiTed the river Avola. At half pallfeven crofTed anotherifvvift- 

 running fl;ream, clear and fliallow, but full of flippcry fl:ones. 

 At three quarters after feven we alighted at Googue, a con- 

 fiderable village, and, as it was now night, we could go no 

 farther ; we had already feveral times mifliaken our way, 

 and loft each other in the dai-k, being often alfo mired in 

 a fmall plain before we pafled the laft river ; but our 

 guide had heard the orders of his mailer, and puflied on 

 brifkly. 



We found the people of Googue the mod favage and un- 

 hofpitable we had yet met with. Upon no account would 

 they fufTer us to enter their houfes, and we were obliged 

 to remain without, the greateft part of the night. At laft 

 they carried us to a houfe of good appearance, but refufed 



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