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fact, could not have been properly secured upon the 

 backs of these little animals. 



In the evening the Hy Soumaulee came to bid 

 me good-bye, objecting to the cold of Angolahlah, 

 when I asked them if they did not intend to visit 

 me there. They shuddered at the thought of it, 

 and all business transactions, as regarded payment 

 for their services, were referred to the agency of 

 the two heads of the Kafilah, Ohmecl Mahomed 

 and Ebin Izaac, who were obliged, of course, to 

 present themselves to the Negoos Sahale Selassee, 

 and to the British ambassador. 



I saw them depart with feelings of regret 

 that I had no means in my power to reward 

 the services of these faithful, and I will add, 

 attached Bedouins ; beyond bearing testimony 

 to the great capabilities of their people, who are 

 possessed certainly of the greatest virtues and of 

 the noblest attributes of our nature, if judged 

 by the standard of human excellence contained in 

 the Iliad or iEneid, the heroes of which I would 

 undertake to match with many Dankalli warriors of 

 the present clay. During my stay in this town, it 

 was customary for them to come from Channo, 

 where they were quartered, to sit with me an hour 

 or so in the cool of the morning or the evening. 

 On these occasions their appearance always gave 

 me pleasure, bursting into sight all at once as they 

 chased each other over the crest of the hill, their 

 dark forms for a moment boldly relieved upon the 

 bright sky behind them ; down they would come 



