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very ugly, with a monftrous big head, but very fharp and 

 clever, and capable of a6ting his parr, was brought to re- 

 prefent the perlbn of Guangoul : a burnt ftick and a bad 

 flaield were provided ; but the great diiEciiitv remained, how 

 to perfuade Doho the dwarf to piit on the raw guts about 

 his neck and waift, and, above all, to plait them in the hair, 

 which he abfolutely refufed, both from religious and cleanly 

 •motives ; as for the butter, it was no objecftion, as all the A- 

 byflinians anoint themfelves with it daily, after bathing. 

 Here we were very near at a Hand, all the ladies having in vain 

 fupplicated him to fuifer for their fakes a temporary pollution, 

 with promifes that oceans of rofe and fccnted water fliould 

 be poured upon him afterwards, to rellore his former fweet- 

 nefs. Doho was a man who conllantly fpent his time in 

 reading fcripture, the a<ft:s of the councils, the works of St 

 John Chryfoilom, and other fuch books as they have among 

 them. He remained inflexible : at lail I fuggefted that fe- 

 veral hanks of cotton, dyed blue, red, and yellow, fliould be 

 got from the weavers in the Mahometan town, and thefe 

 oiled, greafed, and knotted properly, and twifled among the 

 hair, well-anointed with butter, would give a pretty accu- 

 rate relemblance of what we faw in the king's tent. All 

 hands were immediately fct to work ; the cotton was provi- 

 ded ; Ozoro Efther's fervants and flavcs decked Doho to the 

 life. I fpotted his face wdth llibium, and others anointed 

 him with butter : an old milk-cow was found, contrary to 

 my expe(^tation, that fullered a rider without m.uch impa- 

 tience, and in came Guangoul into a great hall in Ozoro 

 Efther's apartment. 



Nevf.r was any thing better pcrfonatcd or better received ; 



the whole hall refounded with one cry of laughter; Doho, 



2 encouraged 



