G6. TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
cannot anfwer for the orders he may have given to his own: 
fervants; but Dixan is mine, although the’ ‘people ate much. 
worfe than thofé of Dobarwa. I have written tomy ‘officers 
there ; : they will behave the better to you’for this; and, as. 
you are flrong and robuft, the ‘beft I°can do - for. eu ae to 
fend you by a rugged road, and a fafe one. _ 
- AciMeET again gave his‘orders to Saloomé, and we, all 
rifing, faid the fedtah, or prayer of peace; which being “over, 
his fervant gave him a narrow web of muflin, which, with. 
his own hands, he wrapped round my head: in the manner 
the better. fort of Mahometans wear it at Dixan. “He then. 
parted, faying, “He that is your enemy is mine. alto; ‘YOU, 
_ hear of me ome Mahomet Gibberti.” - inistis 
Tuts finifhed a feries-of trouble adi vexation, not to fay: 
danger, fuperior to.any thing I ever before. had experienced, 
and of.which the bare, recital (though perhaps too minute 
a one) will’give but an imperfect idea... Thefe wretches. 
poflefs talents for tormenting and alarming, far beyond the..-, 
power of belief; and, by- laying a true fketch of them be-. 
fore a traveller, an author does him the moft real fervice.. 
In this country the more truely we draw the ep ea of: man, | 
the more we feem to fall. anto caricarura... a 
On.the r6th, in the evening, we left Laberhey; and, after: 
continuing about an hour along the plain, our grafs end- 
ed, the ground becoming dry, firm, and. gravelly, and. we 
then entered into a wood. of acacia-trees of. confiderable. fize: 
We now began toafeend gradually, having Gedem, the high : 
mountain which forms the bay of Arkeeko, on our left, and : 
thefe {ameé.mountains, which bound the.plain of Arkeeko to - 
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