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nions from Barranda, and.alfo of our own, none of whom had 
ever before feen a gun fired from a horfe galloping, except- 
ing Yafine and his fervant, now my groom, but neither of 
thefe had. ever feen a: dowble-barrelled gun, We pafled the: 
plain with all the diligence confiflent with tlie fpeed and ca-- 
pacity of our long-eared convoy, and, having now gained. 
the hills, we bade defiance to the Serawé horfe, and fent our 
guard back perfectly content, and full of wonder at our fire-. 
arms, declaring that their mafter the Baharnagath, had he 
feen the black horfe behave that day, would have given me: 
~ another much. better. 
We entered now into:a clofe country covered with brufh- 
wood, wild oats, and high. bent-grafs ; im many places rocky 
_and. uneven, fo-as {carce to leave a. narrow part to. pads. 
Jul in the very entrance a lion had killed a very fine ani- 
‘mal called Agazan. It is of the goat kind; and, excepting 
a fmall variety in colour, is precifely the fame animal I had 
feen in Barbary near Capfa. It might be about twelve ftone 
weight, and of the fize of a large afs. (Whenever'I mention. 
a ftone weight, I would with to be underftood. horfeman’s. 
weight, fourteen pound to the ftone, as moft famuliar to 
the generality of thofe whoread thefe Travels.) Theanimak 
was {carcely dead ; the blood’ was running ; and the noife of 
my gun lad'probably frightened its conqueror away : every. 
one with-their knives cut off a large portion of flefh ; Moors 
and Chriftians did the dame ; yet the-Abyflinians averfion.to- 
any thing’ that is dead is fuch, unlefs killed regularly by. 
the knife, that none of them would lift any bird that was 
fhot, unlefs by the point or extreme feather of: its wing, 
Hunger was not the excufe, for they had been plentifully 
fed all this journey ; fo that the diftinction, in this particu- 
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