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‘The entry is from the fouth fide of it, very. crooked-and: diffi- 
-cult, half way up the rock. On the eaft, is a very plentiful 
fpring, which furnifhes the houfe with excellent wate: 
Yet, after all, this houfe, theugh inaccefiible, is not defen- 
fable, and affords “very little fafety to its mafter; for the 
Shangalla, with flax, or any thing combuftible, tied to the. 
point of their arrows, would eafily fet it oa fire if they once 
approached it; and the Abyflinians with guns could as 
.eafily deftroy it, as, on fuch occafions, they wrap their 
balls in cotton wads. ‘The infide of the ftate-rooms were 
hung with long ftripes of carpeting, and the floors covered 
with the fame. : ih 
THERE is great plenty of game of every fort about Tcher- 
‘kin; elephants, rhinocerofes, and.a great number of buf 
faloes, which differ nothin g in form from the buffaloes of 
Europe or of Egypt, but very much in temper and difpofi- 
‘tion. They are fierce, rafh, and fearlefs of danger; and, 
contrary to the practice of any other creature not carnivo- 
rous, they attack the traveller and the hunter equally, and 
it requires addrefs to efcape from them. They feem to be, 
of all others, the creature the moft given to eafe and indul 
gence. They lie-under the moft fhady trees, near large 
pools of water, of which they make conftant ufe, and fleep 
foundly all the day long. The fleth of the female is very 
good when fat, but that of the male, hard, lean, and dif- 
agreeable. Their horns are ufed in various manners by © 
the turners, in which craft the Abyflinians are very expert. 
In the woods there are many civet cats, but they know not 
the ufe of them, nor how to extraét the civet. The Maho- 
metans only are pofiefied of this art, Lett 
x ‘THOUGH’ 
