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ence in the appearance of the countenance from 

 those whom I term Soumaulee G alias, or the 

 mulatto progeny of Shankalli and Dankalli parents. 

 At present it will serve our purpose to class them 

 as a mixed race between the Amhara and the Shan- 

 kalli, or what is more probable, between the 

 Amhara and the Soumaulee Galla. 



As he sat with me all day, and it happened to be 

 my good day, in contradistinction to the alternate 

 evil one on which I was afflicted with the ague fit, 

 I asked him many questions respecting his country 

 and his parents. As I began to feel more interested 

 in the conversation, and found that my partial know- 

 ledge of Amharic prevented me from making my 

 visitor quite understand some of my questions, I sent 

 Walderheros for Ibrahim, who soon came, and very 

 readily undertook to act as interpreter and illus- 

 trator of Karissa's information. 



He first told me that he was not a born slave 

 of the Negoos, but had recommended himself to 

 the notice of the monarch, by the dexterous manner 

 in which he had conveyed messages to the Kings of 

 Enarea, and of his own country, Cambat. For the 

 fidelity which had marked his return to servitude, 

 and for his bravery during the rebellion of Matoko 

 he had been rewarded by being made a nuftania, or 

 gunman, and would, were he to marry, have a house 

 bestowed upon him, with as much land as two oxen 

 could plough in the year. 



He had lived several years in Gurague, and had 



