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is fancied security, and to be really safe, the 

 traveller must be always prepared to meet their 

 attacks. He will find his best protection to be a 

 constant suspicion of every man's intentions until 

 fully convinced of his peaceable character, or that 

 he is quite aware of the ability to reward him for 

 his protection and friendship, or to punish him for 

 any attempts upon life or property. 



Two saddle-bags of cowskin dressed with the 

 hair on, were made also by the blacksmith; they 

 had no pretensions to elegance, certainly, but as 

 they were capacious enough for me to stow in 

 them all the wardrobe I had selected for the 

 journey, and also several pounds of biscuit, and a 

 small cheese, I did not mind their not being of 

 a make that would have commanded the en- 

 tire approbation of a bagsman accustomed to 

 travel only on English roads. A mule was also 

 purchased for my use, a good old Shabah, as my 

 Dankalli servant Allee used to delight in calling 

 her. She was a remarkably staid steady-going 

 animal of a sober grey colour, and had been so 

 accustomed to travel up and down the road we were 

 going, that I really believe she could have taken me 

 to Shoa without a guide, and had become so used 

 to the regular slow two miles an hour pace of the 

 camels, that she never could be induced to go on 

 any faster, and always seemed most happy when 

 she was at the very end of the line walking close 

 under the tail of the last camel. 



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