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k" it was not likewife the pra(5lice among us. I imagine it 

 prevails as far as the Cape of Good Hope. 



Another interviev/, which happened at Kahha, was much 

 more extraordinary in itfclf, though of much lefs import- 

 ance to the ftate. Guangoul, chief of the Galla of Angot, 

 that is, of the eaftern Galla, came to pay his refpedts to the 

 king and Ras Michael ; he had with him about 500 foot 

 and 40 horfe ; he brought with him a number of large 

 horns for carrying the king's wine, and fome other fucli 

 trifles. He was a little, thin, crofs-made man, of no appa- 

 rent ftrength or fwiftnefs, as far as could be conjectured ; 

 his legs and thighs being thin and fmall tor his body, and 

 his head large ; he was of a yellow, unwholefome colour, 

 not black nor brown ; he had long hair plaited and inter- 

 woven with the bowels of oxen, and fo knotted and tVv^iiied 

 together as to render it impollible to diftinguilh the hair 

 (from the bowels, which hung down in long ilrings, part 

 before his bread and part beiiind his Ihoulder, the 

 moll extraordinary ringlets I had ever feen. He had 

 likewife, a wreath of guts hung about his neck, and fe- 

 veral rounds of the fame about his middle, which fer- 

 ved as a girdle, below which v/as a fhort cotton cloth dipt 

 in butter, and all his body was wet, and running down with 

 the fame ; he feemed to be about fifty years of age, with a 

 confident and infolent fuperiority painted in his face. In 

 'his country it feems,when he appears in ftate, the beaft he 

 rides upon is a cow. He was then in full drefs and cere- 

 mony, and mounted upon one, not of the.largeft fort, but 

 which had monftrous horns. He had no faddle on his co^'. 

 He had fhort drawers, that did not reach the middle of his 

 thighs ; his knees, feet, legs, and all his body were bare. 



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