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little prefent at taking my leave, which he feemed furprifed 
at; and, very much contrary to my expectations, had fome 
difficulty about receiving, faying, he was afhamed that he 
had not any return for us; that he was a foldier, and had 
nothing but the lancesin his hand and the goat’s fkin on his 
fhoulders, neither of which he could be fure to poffefs for 
twenty-four hours; he then told us that Fafil had, by that. 
time, pitched his tent at Bamba, within a mile of us, and 
was to difpatch. the wild Galla from thence to their own 
country: he gave us a man who, he faid, would take care 
of us, and defired us not to difmifs him till we had feen: 
Fafil, and not to pitch our tent, but rather to go into one of — 
the empty houfes of Bamba, as all the people had fled. 
We now parted equally contented with each other; at the 
fame time I faw he fent off another man, who went fwiftly _ 
on, probably to carry advice of us to Fafil: we had ftaid. 
with him fomething lefs than half an hour.. 
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