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upon the other two, whofe cries were ftill remaining in my 
ears: that the hyenas at night would fcarcely let me pafs 
in the ftreets when I returned from the palace; and the 
dogs fled into my houfe to eat pieces of human carcafes at 
leifure. + ie 
Attuoueu his intention was to look grave, I faw it was 
all he could do to ftifle a laugh at grievances he thought 
very little of. “The men you faw with Za Mariam juft now, 
fays he, are rebels, fent by Kefla Yafous for examples: he 
has forced a junction with Tecla and Welleta Michael in 
Samen, and a road is now open through Woggora, and 
plenty eftablifhed in Gondar. Themen you faw fuffer were 
thofe that cut off the provifions from coming into the city; 
they have occafioned the death of many poor people; as for 
the hyzna he never meddles with living people, he feeks 
carrion, and will foon clear the flreets of thofe incumbran- 
‘ces that fo much offend you; people fay that they are the 
Falafha of the mountains, who take that fhape of the hyena, 
and come down into the town to eat Chriftian flefh in the 
night.”—“ If they depend upon Chriftian fleth, and eat no 
other, faid I, perhaps the hyenas of Gondar will be the 
wort fed of any in the world.”—‘ True, fays he, burfting 
‘out into a loud Jaughter, that may be, few of thofe that die 
by the knife anywhere are Chriftians, or have any religion 
at all; why then fhould you mind what they fuffer ?”— 
“ Sir, faid I, that is not my fentiment; if you was toordera - 
_ dog to be tortured to death before me every morning, I 
could not bear it. The carcafes of Abba Salama, Guebra 
Denghel, and the reft, are ftill hanging where they were up- 
onthe tree; you {mell the ftench of them at the palace-gate, 
and wil foon, I apprehend, in the palace itfelf. This cannot 
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