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if it was not likewife the practice among us. I imagine it 
prevails as far as the Cape of Good Hope. 
ANOTHER interview, which happened at Kahha, was much 
more extraordinary in itfelf, though of much lefs import- 
ance to the ftate. Guangoul, chief of the Galla of Angot, 
that is, of the eaftern Galla, came to pay his refpects to the 
king and Ras Michael;.he had with him about 500 foot 
and 4o horfe: he brought with him a number of large 
horns for carrying the king’s win®, and fome other fuch 
trifles. He was a little, thin, crofs-made man, of no appa- 
rent ftrength or fwiftnefs, as far. as could be conjectured ; 
his legs and thighs being thin and {mall for his body, and 
his head large; he was of a yellow, unwholefome colour, 
not black nor brown; he had long hair plaited and inter- 
woven with the bowels of oxen, and fo knotted and twifted 
together as to render it impoflible to diftinguifh the hair 
from the bowels, which hung down in long ftrings, part ' 
before his breaft and part behind his fhoulder, the 
moft extraordinary ringlets I had ever feen. He had 
likewife, a wreath of guts hung about his neck, and f{e- 
veral rounds of the fame about his middle, which fer- 
ved as a girdle, below which was a fhort cotton cloth dipt 
in butter, and all his body was wet, and running down with 
the fame; he feemed to be about fifty years of age, with a 
confident and infolent fuperiority painted in his face. In 
his country it feems, when he appears in ftate, the beaft he 
rides upon is a cow. Hewas then in full drefs ‘and cere- 
“mony, and mounted upon one, not of the largeft fort, but 
which had monftrous horns. He had no faddle on his cow, 
He had fhort drawers, that did not reach the middle of hig 
thighs ; his knees, feet, legs, and all his body were bare. 
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