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one on the right, then one on the left; they both fell dead 
en the ground; a great fhout immediately followed from 
the {pectators below, to which I feemingly paid no attention, 
pretending abfolute indifference, as if nothing extraordinary 
had been done. I then difmounted from my horfe, giving 
him and my gunto my fervant, and, fitting down on a 
large ftone, I began to apply fome white paper to ftaunch ~ 
a {mall {cratch the firft horfe had given me on the leg, by 
rubbing it againft a thorn tree: as my trowfers, indeed,- 
were all flained with the blood of the firft horfe, much cut 
by the {pur, it was generally thought I was wounded. 
Fasiz on this fent for me to come immediately to him, 
having juft got up from a fleep after a whole night’s de- 
bauch. He was at the door of the tent when I began ri-- 
ding my own horfe, and, having feen the fhots, ordered the — 
kites immediately to be brought him: his fervants had la- 
boured in vain to find the hole where the ball, with which 
I had killed the birds, had entered; for none of them had- 
ever feen fmall-fhot, and I did not undeceive them. I had 
no fooner entered his tent than he afked me, with great 
earneiftnefs, to {hew him where the ball had gone through. 
I gave him no explanation; but, if you have really an in-— 
clination to kill me, faid I, you had better do it here, where 
I have fervants that will bury me, and tell the King and the 
Iteghé the kind reception you have given ftrangers whom 
they have recommended. He afked what I meant? What was 
the matter now? and I was going to anfwer, when Welleta’ 
Michael told him the whole ftory, greatly in my favour, in- 
deed, but truly and plainly as to the trick about the horfe. 
The Fit-Auraris Woldo faid fomething to him in Galla, 
which plainly made the matter worfe. Fafil now feemed in’ 
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