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alfo told us, that he would come himfclf in three or four 
days after. I heard alfo, that his.fervant Ammonios had 
gone round Nara to take pofleffion of fome villages the 
king had given Ozoro Efther, and that he had with him 
a number of horfe and foot, and feveral Ozoros, going to 
‘Tcherkin, but they had gone the upper road, confequently 
thad not come this way. iIs there no danger, faid I, in 
pafling Dav-Dobba? Why, at Dav-Dohha, ‘aid he, there is 
danger, it isa bad place, nobody paffes it on horfeback; but 
I fee your horfes are fhod with iron, which none in this 
country are ; however, to avoid all danger, you had better 
lead your horfes and mules, and walk on foot, it is not far. 
I covrp not help burfting out into a fit of laughter at 
the fancied danger that attended us at Dav-Dohha; and; 
as I faw this difconcerted our informant, and that he thought 
he had faid fomething wrong, I told him briefly what had 
paffed at meeting with the two men upon the road. He 
‘laughed very heartily at this in his turn. “ That man did 
mot ftop here, {ays he, and who he is I knownot; but who- 
ever he is, he is a liar, and a’beaft of the field. All the 
people of Dav-Dohha are our relations, and Ayto Confu’s 
fervants ; 1f there had been any body to attack you, there 
would have been found here people to defend you. What 
fignifies his ordering us to furnith you with victuals, if he 
was to fuffer your throats to be cut before you came to eat 
them? | will anfwer for you between this and Tcherkin ;. 
after that, all is wildernefs, and no man knows if he is to 
meet friend or foe.” 
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I rorp him then what had happened to us at Gimbaar, 
at which he cared exceedingly furprifed. “ Thefe villages. 
fays 
