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‘or fhield, and only two naked’ fervants with him; did not 
I tell you what was the meaning of the news?” Though 
this was fpoken ina language of whichit was. impoflible Am- 
dac could know a fyilable, yet he prefently apprehended in 
part whatI would fay. “ I fee, fays he, you believe what 
I told you laft night to be falfe, and invented only to get’ 
from you a prefent: but you, fhall fee ; and if this day we 
do not meet Welled Aragawi and his foldiers, you are then 
in the right; it is as you/imagine,’—‘* You do me wrong, 
faid I, and have not underftood me, for how fhould you. 
Thofe white people believe too well all you told them, and 
are only apprehenfive of your not being able to-defend-us, 
being without arms and followers, All1 faid was, that where 
you were, armed or unarmed, there was no danger.” —“ True, 
fays he, you are now in .Mait{ha, and not in my coun- 
try, which is Goutto ; you are now in the worft country in © - 
all Abyflinia, where the brother kills his brother for a 
loaf of bread, of which he has no need: you are ina 
country.of Pagans, or dogs, Galla, and worfe than Galla’; if 
ever you meet an o/d man here, he is a ftranger ; all that are ~ 
natives die by the lance young; and yet, though thefe two 
chieftains I mentioned fight to-day, unarmed as I am, (as 
you well fala) you are in no danger while I am with you. 
Thefe people of Maitfha, fhut up between the Jemma, the 
'N le, and the lake, have no where but from the Agows to 
get what they want; they come to the fame market with 
us here in Goutto ; the fords of the Jemma, they know, are 
in my hands; and did they offer an injury to a friend of 
- mine, were it but to whittle as he paffed them, they know ~ 
I am not gentle; though not a Galla, they are fenfible, — 
one day or other, I fhould call them to account, though it 
swere in the bed-chamber of their mailer Fafil.” wi oi 
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