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He now put on alook of more complacency, “Look you, 
~Yagoube, fays he, it is true I-can do it; and, for the king’s 
fake who recommended it to me, I would do it; but the 
Acab Saat, Abba Salama, has fent to me, to defire me not to 
‘det you pafs further; he fays it is againft the law of the land 
to permit Franks like you to go about the country, and that 
he has dreamed fomething ill will befal me if you go into 
Maitfha.” Iwas as much irritated as I thought it poffible for 
me tobe. “ So fo,faid I,the time of priefts, prophets,and dream- 
ers is coming on again.” “I underftand you, fays he laugh- 
ing for the firft time; I care as little for priefts as Michael 
does, and for prophets too, but I would have you confider 
the men of this country are not like yours; a boy of thefe 
Galla would think nothing of killing a man of your coun- 
try. You white people are all effeminate; you are like fo 
many women; you are not fit for going into a province 
where all is war, and inhabited by men, warriors from their 
cradle.” | 
I saw he intended to provoke me; and he had fucceeded 
fo effectually that I fhould have died, I believe, imprudent 
as it was, if I had not told him my mind in reply. “Sir, 
faid I, 1 have pafled through many of the moft barbarous 
nations in the world; all of them, excepting this clan of 
yours, have fome great men among them above ufing a de- 
fencelefs ftranger ill. But the worft and loweft individual 
among the moft uncivilized people never treated me as you 
have done to-day under your own roof, where | have come fo 
far for protection.” He afked, “ How?” “ You have, in the firft 
place, faid I, publicly called me Frank, the moft odious 
name in this country, and fufficient to occafion me to be 
ftoned to death without further ceremony, by any fet of 
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