20 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
cut from the buttocks of the animal yet alive, After 
fome horns of hydromel, he had paffed to the other fide, 
where he was received with ftill more affection, if poffible, 
by Welleta Michael, and there he began again to eat the 
raw meat with an appetite as keen as if he had fafted for 
whole days; he then configned us to Ayto Welleta Michael, 
his friend and mine, who furnifhed us with a fervant to con- 
duct us on our way, while he himfelf remained that night 
at the ford among the combatants. He advifed us to ad- 
vance as far as poflible, for all that country was deftroy- 
ed by a malignant fever which laid all wafte beyond Dela- 
kus. } 
We left the ford at a quarter paft five in the evening, and,. 
purfuing our journey north, we paffed the fmall town of De- 
lakus, continuing along the hillamong little fpots of brufh= 
wood and {mall fields of corn intermixed. At half paft fix: 
paffed the riverAvola. At half paftfeven croffed another/fwift- 
running ftream, clear and fhallow, but full of flippery ftones.. 
At three quarters after feven we alighted at Googue, a con- 
fiderable village, and, as it was now night, we could go no: — 
farther ; we had already feveral times miftaken our way, 
and loft each other in the dark, being often alfo mired in. 
a {mall plain before we paffed the laft river; but our 
guide had heard the orders. of his mafter, and pufhed_on 
brifkly. : 
We found the people of Googue the moft' favage and un- 
hofpitable we had yet met with. Upon no account would: 
they fuffer us to enter their houfes, and we were obliged: 
to remain without, the greateft part of the night. At laft 
they carried us to a houfe of good appearance, but refufed: 
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