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I came out of the tent to mount my mule for Tenens Bos 
now faw Confu’s fervant, whofe name was Welleta Yafous, i 
pulling the Guinea-fowls and pigeons out of the pannier, ._ 
where my fervants had put them, and fcattering them upon . 
the ground, and he was faying to thofe who interrupted him, - 
“ Throw away this carrion; you fhall have a better break-. 
faft and dinner, too, to-day ;” and turning tome more than . 
ordinarily pleafed at feeing me dreffed, and that I continued ° 
to-ufe the Abyflinian habit, he jumped upon his mule, and ! 
appeared in great fpirits, and we all fet outat a brifker pace = 
than ufual, by the affiftance of the two. frefh mules, 
We paffed through the midft of feveral {mall villages. At: 
half an hour paft eight we came to the mountain of Tcher-- 
kin, which we rounded onthe weft, and:then on the north, 
keeping the mountain always on our right. At twenty mi--_ 
nutes pak ten I pitched my tent in the market-place at: 
Tcherkin, which feemed a beautiful lawn laid out for Pe 
fure, fhaded with fine old trees, of an enormous height and? 
fize, and watered by a {mall but very limpid brook, run-. 
ie over beds of pebbles as white as {now... 
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