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not concealed shall multiply and prosper, have fair 

 faces, become wealthy, and reign lords over all the 

 earth; but the progeny of your third son shall, in 

 consequence of your having concealed him, produce 

 Seedis as black as darkness, who will be sold in the 

 market like cattle, and remain in perpetual servitude 

 to the descendants of the other two.' " 



On the 1 2th we returned to our former quarters, the 

 village of Salawe ; but I did not enjoy such repose as 

 on the former visit, for the people were in their cups, 

 and, nolens volens, persisted in entering my hut. 

 Sometimes I rose and drove them out, at other times 

 I turned round and feigned to sleep ; but these man- 

 oeuvres were of no avail ; still they poured in, and 

 one old man, more impudent than the rest, under- 

 standing the trick, seized my pillow by the end, and 

 tugging at it as a dog pulls at a quarter of horse, 

 roused me with loud impatient " "VVhu-hu " and " Hi, 

 Hi's," until at last, out of patience, I sent my boots 

 whirling at his head. This cleared the room, but 

 only for a moment : the boisterous, impudent crowd, 

 true to savage nature, enjoying the annoyance they 

 had occasioned, returned exultingly, with shouts and 

 grins, in double numbers. The Belooehes then inter- 

 fered, and, in their zeal to keep order, irritated some 

 drunkards, who at once became pugnacious. On 

 seeing the excited state of these drunkards, bawling 

 and stepping about in long, sudden, and rapid strides, 

 with brandished spears and agitated bows, endeavour- 



