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On the i8th, about fix in the morning, Erbab Gimbaro^ 

 coming down to our tent, brought thirty loaves of Dora as 

 before, and four of wheat, for the journey ; and we had al- 

 ready enough of honey, upon which we breakfafted wuh 

 the Erbab, who, to confirm the friendfhip, took two or three 

 glaffes of ftrong fpirits, which put liim into excellent hu- 

 mour. His fon, too, that he might atone for his lail night's 

 milbehaviour, brought a better camel than any we had leen, 

 and exchanged it for one of thofe that came yelterday in 

 the evening. I, on the other hand, gave him a cotton cloth, 

 and fome trifles, which made him perfectly happy ; and we 

 parted in the moft cordial friendfhip poiiible, after having 

 made a promife that, at my return, I Ihould flay a week at 

 Sancaho to hunt the elephant and rhinoceros. 



Before leaving Sancaho, I had an opportunity of verify- 

 ing a fa(5l hitherto doubtful in natural hillory, Mr Haflel- 

 tjuift, the Swedilh traveller, when at Cairo, faw the fkins of 

 two girafFos ftufTrd, which came from Sennaar, He gives 

 as minute a defcription as poflible he could from feeing the 

 Ikins only ; but fays nothing about the horns, becaufe I 

 fuppofe he did not fee them ; on which account the doubt 

 remained undecided, whether the girafFo's horns were folid 

 as the deer's, and call every year ; or whether they were 

 hollow, attached to a core, or bone, like thofe of flieep, and 

 confequently permanent. The Count de Buflon conje(5lures 

 them to be of this lall kind, and fo I found them. They 

 are twifted in all refpeds like the horns of an antelope. 



At ten minutes paft eight we fet out from Sancaho ; but 



my people took it into their heads, that, notwithftanding the 



fair behaviour of Erbab Gimbaro, he intended to lay fome 



2 ambufh 



