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the moft valuable Prlefewieg in this Aspe of the hardware 
kind. rly 31 9 aos oda 6 
THe Baharnagafh now was in fuch violent good fpirits, 
that he would not go home till he: had feen a: good part;of 
his jar of hydromel finifhed ; and he little knew, at that time, 
he was in the tent with a man who was to be his chief cu- 
ftomer for horfes hereafter. I faw him feveral times after 
at court, and did him fome fervices, both with the king and 
Ras Michael. He had a quality which I then did not know: 
With all his fimplicity and buffoonery, rio one was braver 
in his own perfon than he; and, together with his youngeft — 
fon, he died afterwards in the king’s defence, fi ghting brave= 
ly at the battle of Serbraxos. 
Ar five o'clock this afternoon we had a violent {hower- 
of hailftones. Nothing is more common than aggravation 
about the fize of hail; but, ftooping to take up one I thought 
as large as a nutmeg, I received a blow from another juft 
under my eye, which I imagined had blinded me, and which 
occafioned a {welling all the next day.. | 
I uap gained the Baharnagath’s heart fo entirely that it 
was not pofiible to get away the next day. We were upon 
the very verge of his {mall dominions, and he had ordered 
a quantity of wheat-flour to be made for us, which he fent 
in the evening, with a kid. For my part, the fhare I had 
taken yefterday of his hydromel had given me fuch a pain. 
in my head that I {carce could raife it the whole day. . 
Ir was the 29th we left our ftation at Barranda, and had 
fearcely advanced a mile when we were overtaken bya 
party 
