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10 TRAVELS: TO DISCOVER: — 
either learn her my language, or fhe would teach me Gallas. 
The party was accepted as foon as offered; the morning -was- 
freth and cool, nor had laft. night’s bation any way difor-- 
dered my ftomach.. Strates himfelf; though afraid of Wel-- 
led Amlac, and exceedingly exafperated at the impudent be- 
haviour, as he called it, of Melectanea, was, however, a little - 
pacified at the approach:of the-white.cow,. Brother, fays he. 
to Michael, we have nothing to do with people’s manners. 
as long as they are civil-to us: as.to this houfe, there is: 
no doubr but the men are robbers and murderers, and their- 
women wh—es ; but if: they ufe us well while we are now 
here, and we are fo lucky as to get to Gondar alive, lét the 
devil take me if ever I feek again to be at Welled Abea: 
Abbo. It was agreed to relax that day, and dedicate it-to: 
herborizing; as alfo to the fatisfying the curiofity of our fe~ 
male friends, by anfwering all their queftions; and thus-., 
the forenoon paffed as agreeable as poffible. . | 
Wetiep AmLac, a:great hunter, had gone with me* 
early to a neighbouring thicket on horfeback, armed with : 
lances. in -fearch of venifon, though we certainly did not: 
want. provifions.. We-in a-few- minutes raifed two bohur, 
alarge animalof the deer kind, and each purfued his beaft; - 
mine had not run- 400 -yards before T-overtook- him, and’. 
pierced him with my pike ; and the fame would have hap- - 
pened probably.to the other, had -not- Welled Amlae’s horfe 
put his fore-feet into:a fox’s hole, which .threw. him and- 
his rider headlong. to the ground; he was- not, however, 
hurt, but: rofe very gravely, and defired me ‘to return; it 
being a rule among-thefe people, never to perfift when 
any thing unfortunate: falls out in the beginning of a 
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