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alfo told us, that he would come himfelf in three or four 

 days aFter. I heard alio, that his fervant Ammonios had 

 gone round Nara to take pofleirion of fome villages the 

 king had given Ozoro Edher, and that he had with him 

 a number of horfe and foot, and feveral Ozoros, going to 

 Tcherkin, but they had gone the upper road, confequently 

 had not come this way. Is there no danger, faid I, in 

 pzfCmg Dav-Dobba I' Why, at Dav-Dohha, faid he, there is 

 danger, it is a bad place, nobody pafTes it on horfeback; but 

 I fee your horfes are fliod with iron, which none in this 

 country are ; however, to avoid all danger, you had better 

 lead your horfes and mules, and walk on foot, it is not far. 



I couLi> not help burfting out into a fit of laughter at 

 the fancied danger that attended us at Dav-Dohha ; and, 

 as I faw this difconcerted our informant, and that he thought 

 he had faid fomething wrong, I told him briefly what had 

 paflfed at meeting with the two men upon the road. He 

 laughed very heartily at this in his turn. " That man did 

 not llop here, fays he, and who he is I know not ; but who- 

 ever he is, he is a liar, and a beafl of the field. All the 

 people of Dav-Dohha are our relations, and Ayto Confu's 

 fervants ; if there had been any body to attack you, there 

 would have been found here people to defend you. What 

 fignifies his ordering us to furnilh you with victuals, if he 

 was to fuffer your throats to be cut before you came to eat 

 them ? 1 will anfv/er for you between this and Tclierkin ; 

 after that, all is wildernefs, and no man knovirs if he is to 

 meet friend or foe." 



I TOLD him then what had happened to us at Gimbaar^ 

 at which he feemed exceedingly furprifed. *' Thefe villages, 



fays 



