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rendered doubly agreeable by the honey, the 

 cloying sweetness of which, subduing, and being 

 subdued, by the bitterness of the berry, left the 

 pleasant and peculiar aroma of the latter alone 

 sensible to the palate. 



Scarcely had I partaken of breakfast this 

 morning, before patients and visitors from distant 

 villages, coming to the market, and taking this 

 opportunity of calling upon me, thronged around 

 my house, and memolagees of eggs, butter, and 

 fowls, would, if I had accepted them all, have most 

 inconveniently occupied the floor of my house. 

 Among others, the father of Wallata Gabriel came 

 for some medicine he required, having long been 

 labouring under a rheumatic affection of the hip. 

 As an offering on the occasion, he brought the 

 entire tapering trunk of a ted tree, more than 

 fifteen feet long, which I had desired Walderheros 

 to get me, for the purpose of manufacturing into 

 an English chair, and also a pair of window frames, 

 over which I intended to stretch a glaze of oiled 

 parchment, and place in the outer wall of one of 

 the recesses, to convert it into a study. Another 

 daughter of his, named Wallata Selassee, assisted 

 the old man in carrying the tree, and she brought 

 me besides, a number of eggs tied up in the girdle 

 around her waist. 



These had not sat long, and before the old man 

 had finished his doleful story, when another 

 married daughter of his, her husband, Walder- 



