918 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
Ayto Conru’s fervants, who heard this meflage deliver- 
ed, and who were as defirous of getting over this journey ~ 
to Ras el Feel as I was, advifed me to go with him up the » 
hill to the town, and expoftulate with the Erbab, who, he 
faid, would be afhamed to refufe. Accordingly, I armed. 
myfelf with a pair of piftols at my girdle, with a fufil and. 
bayonet in my hand; and took with me two fervants «with 
their piftols alfo, each carrying a large fhip-blunderbufs. 
‘We mounted the hill with great difficulty, being feveral 
times obliged to pull up one another by the hands, and en- 
tered into a large room about fifty feet long. It was all 
hung round with elephants heads and trunks, with fkele- 
tons of the heads of fome rhinocerofes, and of monftrous 
hippopotami, as alfo feveral heads’ of the giraffa. Some 
Jarge lion fkins were thrown on feveral parts of the room, — 
like carpets; and Gimbaro ftood upright at one end of it, 
naked, only a fmall cloth about his middle; the largeft ‘ 
aman I ever remembered to have feen, perfectly black, flat- 
mofed, thick-lipped, and woolly-headed; and feemed to be 
a perfect picture of thofe Cannibal giants which we read of 
as inhabiting enchanted caftles in fairy tales. 
He did not feem to take notice at my firft entering the 
zoom, nor till I was very near him. He then came auk- 
wardly forward, bowing, endeavouring to kifs my hand, 
which I withdrew from him, and faid-in a firm voice, “ I 
apprehend, Sir, you do not know me.” He bowed and faid 
he did, but did not conceive, at the time, it was me that en- 
camped at the brook. ‘“ You did know, Sit, when you fent_ 
your fon with Yafine’s fervant, and you know that you are 
confiderably in my debt. Befides, if you had any gratitude, — 
you would remember the arrears I remitted you, and the pre- 
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