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along with them, defcending from the tops of the high moun- 
tains of Habefh, with their flocks to pafture, on the plains, 
below near the fea, upon grafs that grows/up in the months 
of October and November, when they have already confu- 
med-what grew in the oppofite feafon on the other fide of 
_ the mountains. 
Tuts change of domicil’gives them: a: propenfity to: thies. 
ving and violence; though otherwife a-cowardly tribe. It- 
is a proverb in Abyflinia, “-Beware of men‘that drink two. 
“. waters,” meaning thefe, and all: the <tribes':of Shepherds, , 
who’ were in fearch of: pafture; and who. have lain under. 
the fame imputation from:the remoteft antiquity. nA? £ 
Tue Shiho were once very numerous ; but, like all thefe- 
nations having communication with Mafuah, have fuffered ‘ 
much by the ravages of the fmall-pox.:::The-Shiho are the - 
blackeft of the tribes bordering upon the:RedSea. They: 
were all clothed ; their women in.coarfe cotton fhifts reachs- 
ing down to their ancles, girt about the middle withia leas. 
ther belt, and:having very large fleeves; the men in fhort. 
cotton breeches reaching to the middle of their thighs, and ; 
a goat’s {kin crofs their fhoulders.. They. have neither tents , 
nor cottages, but either live in caves in the mountains under: 
rees, or in {mall conical ‘huts built with.a thick: grafs. like : 
reeds. Lr tty | 
Tus party confifted of about-fifty men, and, Ifuppofe;., 
not more than’ thirty women; from which it feemed pro- 
bable the Shiho.are Monogam, as afterwards, indeed, I- 
knew them to be. Each of them had a lance in his hand, . 
anda knife.atthe girdle which kept up the breeches. They 
had: 
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