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to command such a mark of deference and respect 

 from the opposite sex. 



I have seen sufficient, indeed, to convince me 

 that the youth of Abyssinia, males and females, 

 whilst influenced by the feelings natural to that 

 age, are diffident, confiding, and good-natured, 

 and however they may become altered by the 

 experience of increasing years, and the education 

 of after life, these moral principles still prevail, and 

 give a favourable inclination to the practice of virtue 

 and justice, that renders their social condition pro- 

 ductive of much happiness to themselves, and affords 

 some pleasure to the mind, that contemplates their 

 character and condition, uninfluenced by the bias 

 derived from the moral discipline of a very dif- 

 ferently constituted community. 



August 15th. — Being unable to go much abroad 

 to extend my acquaintance with the habits and 

 manners of the Shoans, I was particularly desirous 

 that my establishment should be entirely conducted 

 upon the principles of Abyssinian domestic eco- 

 nomy. As this exactly suited the inclination of 

 Walderheros, and as it did not matter to Goodaloo 

 in what way things were managed, so that he got a 

 large roll of teff bread in a morning to wrap up in 

 his mekanet when he went to cut fuel, and his 

 supper in the evening when he returned, the pro- 

 posal met with universal approbation from the 

 members of my household, and my wishes were 

 attended to in every particular. 



