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leather, or the hardeft fKh fent from Newfoundland. This 

 is their provifion for the winter months : They firft beat i§» 

 with a wooden mallet, then boil it, after which they roaffc 

 it upon the embers ; and it is hard enough after it has un-... 

 dergone all thofe operations. 



The Dobenah, the moft' powerful' of all the Shangallav, 

 who have a fpeeies of fupremacy or command over all the: 

 reft of the nations, live altogether upon the elephant or rhi- 

 noceros. In other countries, where there is lefs water, fewer- 

 trees, and more grafs, the Shangalla feed chiefly upon more 

 promifcuous kinds of food, as buffaloes, deer, boars, lions, 

 and ferpents. Thefe are the nations nearer the Tacazze; 

 Ras el Feel, and the plains of Sire in Abyflinia, the chief of 

 which nations is called Baafa. And ftill farther weft of the 

 Tacazze, and the valley of Waldubba, is a tribe of thefe^ 

 who live chiefly upon the crocodile, hippopotamus, and 

 other fifh ; and, in the fummer, upon locufts, which they 

 boil firfl, and afterwards keep dry in bafkets, moft curiouf- 

 ly made with fplit branches of trees, fo clofely woven togc-- 

 ther as to contain water almoft as well as a wooden vefTeh . 



This nation borders nearly upon the Abyffinian hunting- 

 ground; but, not venturing to extend themlelves in thechace 

 of wild beafts, they are confined r:> the neighbourhood of 

 the Tacazze, and rivers falling ...10 it, where they fifh in 

 fafety : the banks of that river are deep, interrupted by fteep 

 precipices inacceflible to cavalry, and, from the thicknefs of 

 the woods, full of thorny trees of Innumerable fpeeies, al- 

 moft as impervious to foot. Thefe ftreams, pollened only by 

 themfelves, afford the Baafa the moft excellent kinds of fifh 

 in the moft prodigious plenty. 



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