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I came out of the tent to mount my mule for Tcherkin. I 

 now faw Confu's fervant, whofe name was Welleta Yafous, 

 pulling the Guinea-fowls and pigeons out of the pannier, 

 where my fervants had put them, and fcattering them upon 

 the ground, and he was faying to thofe who interrupted him, 

 " Throw away this carrion ; you fhall have a better break- 

 fall and dinner, too, to-day ;" and turning to me more than 

 ordinarily pleafed at feeing me drelTed, and that I continued 

 to ufe the Abyffinian habit, he jumped upon his mule, and 

 appeared in great fpirits, and we all fet out at a brilker pace 

 than ufuaJ, by the affiftance of the two frefli mules. 



We pafTed through the midil of feveral fmall villages. At 

 half an hour pall eight v/e came to the mountain of Tcher- 

 kin, which we rounded on the weft, and then on the north, 

 keeping the mountain always on our right. At twenty mi- 

 nutes paft ten I pitched my tent in the market-place at 

 Tcherkin, v^^hichfeemed a beautiful lawn laid out for plea- 

 lure, lliaded with fine old trees, of an enoiTnous height and 

 ilze, and watered by a fmall but very limpid brook, riui- 

 ning over beds of pebbles as white as fnQW,_ 



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