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manhood, he gives two or three milk-cows, or more, ac- 

 cording to his rank and fortune. Thefe, and all their pro- 

 duce, remain the property of the child to whom they were 

 given by his father ; and thefe the brother is obliged to 

 pay to him upon his father's death, in the fame number and 

 kinds. The eldeft brother, is moreover, obliged to give the 

 filter, whenever fhe is marriageable, whatever other provi- 

 fion the father may have made in his lifetime for her, with 

 all its increafe from the day of the donation. 



When the father becomes old and unfit for war, he is 

 obliged to furrender his whole effects to his eldeft fon, who 

 is bound to give him aliment, and nothing elfe ; and, when 

 the eldeft brother dies, leaving younger brothers behind 

 him, and a widow young enough to bear children, the 

 youngeft brother of all is obliged to marry her ; but the 

 children of the marriage are always accounted as if they 

 were the eldeft brother's ; nor does this marriage of the 

 youngeft brother to the widow entitle him to any part of 

 the deceafed's fortune. 



The fouthern Galla are called Elma Kilelloo, Elma Goo- 

 deroo, Elma Robali, Elma Doolo, Elma Bodena, Elma Hor- 

 reta, and Elma Michaeli ; thefe are the feven fouthern na- 

 tions which the Mahometan traders pafs through in their 

 way to Narea, the fouthernmoft country the Abyffinians ever 

 conquered. 



The weftern Galla for their principal clans have the 

 Bjawi, Edjow or Ayzo, and Toluma, and thefe were the clans 

 we principally fought with when I was in Abyffinia. They 

 are chiefly Pagans. Some of their children, who were left 



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