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al up with dead tithes, after the defeat of the king’s wing 
at the battle of Serbraxos. 
Ar half paft three we refumed ourjourney. Afharp and’ 
pyramidal mountain ftands alone in the middle of the 
plain, prefenting its high {harp top through the trees, and 
making here a very picturefque and uncommon appearance; 
it is called Gutch, and feemed to be diftant from us about 
fix miles due North. A few minutes after this we pafled a 
fmall ftream called Agam-Ohha, or the Brook of Jeflamine; 
from a beautiful {pecies of that fhrub, very frequent here, 
and on the fides of the {mall ftreams in the province of 
Siré. 
A Frew minutes paft four we entered a thick wood, wind- 
mg round a hill, in a fouth-eaft direction, to get into the 
plain below, where we were furrounded by a great mul- 
titude of men, armed with lances, fhields, flings, and large 
clubs or fticks, who rained a fhower of ftones towards us, 
as I may fay; for they were at fuch a diftance, that all of 
them fell greatly fhort of us. Whether this was owing to. 
fear, or not, we did not know; but fuppofing that it was, 
we thought it our intereft to keep rt up as muchas poffible. 
E therefore ordered two fhots to be fired over their heads ; 
not with any intention to hurt them, but to let them hear, 
by the balls whiftling among the leaves of the trees, that 
our guns carried farther than any of their flings; and 
that, diftant as they then were, they were not in fafety, 
if we had a difpofition to do them harm. They feem- 
ed to underftand our meaning, by gliding through among 
the bufhes, and appearing at the top of a hill farther off, 
where they continued Ens and crying and making 
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