THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 99 
We paffled the village of Dergate, then that of Regticat, 
on the top of a very high hill on the left, as the other was 
on our right. We pitched our tent about half a mile off 
the village called Barranda, where we were overtaken by 
‘our friend the Baharnagafh, who was fo well pleéafed with 
our laft interview, efpecially the bargain of the horfe, that 
he fent us three goats, two jars of honey-wine, and fome 
wheat-flour. Iinvited him to my tent, which he imme- 
diately accepted. He was attended by two fervants on foot, 
with lances and fhields; he had no arms himfelf, but, by 
‘way of amends, had two drums beating, and two trumpets 
blowing before him, founding a charge. 
He feemed to be a very fimple, good-natured man, in- 
deed, remarkably fo; a character rarely found in any degree 
‘of men in ‘this ‘country. He afked me how] liked my horfe? 
faid, he hoped I did not intend tomouni it myfelf? I an- 
{wered, God forbid; 1 kept him as a curiofity. He commend- 
ed my prudence very much, and gave me a long detail a- 
bout what horfes had done, and would do, on occafions. 
Some of the people without, however, fhewed his fer- 
vants my faddle, bridle, and ftirrups, which they well knew, 
from being neighbours to the Arabs of Sennaar, and prai- 
fed me as a better horfeman by far than any one in 
that'country; this they told to the Baharnagath, who, no- 
thing offended, laughed heartily at the pretended ignorance 
I had {hewn ‘him, and fhook me very kindly by the hand, 
and told me he was really poor, or he would have taken no 
money from me for the horfe. He fhewed fo much good 
nature, and open honett behaviour, that I gave him a pre- 
fent better than the firft, and which was more agreeable, as 
Jefs expected. Razors, knives, fleels for flriking fire, are 
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