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situated like the Amhara, whose language and 

 whose customs identify their origin with that of 

 the Jews. 



Long before the revels ended I had laid myself 

 down on the ox skin which had served me as a 

 couch during the day, and soon fell fast asleep. 

 In the same apartment lay the wives of the owner 

 of the house, two or three slave-girls, and some 

 young children. Fowls also were roosting upon a 

 kind of shelf made of jowaree stalks, bound 

 together and placed against the wall, and had I 

 not occupied the whole of the raised platform of 

 clay and stones, I expect the family would have 

 slept upon it, and two oxen, unceremoniously shut 

 out to sleep with the Hy Soumaulee in the garden, 

 would have occupied that part of the house where 

 now, huddled together, the women and children 

 were sleeping. 



Having arrived in Abyssinia, I shall conclude 

 my account of the journey through Adal with a 

 few remarks upon the character of the Dankalli, 

 which, upon a review of what I have written, seem 

 necessary to explain the opinion I hold of the great 

 capabilities possessed by this family of man. 



In the first place, I am bound to add my 

 testimony to that of every other traveller, to the 

 proneness of the Dankalli . to shed human blood, 

 and the little value they seem to attach to human 

 life. By a distortion of moral and natural ideas 

 of right and wrong, unparalleled in the history of 



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