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ed as this was, and returning to very diftant countries, per- 
Raps never to be aflembled again; yet this man was cho- 
fen by one that perfectly knew he was above all others ca- 
pable of the truft he had repofed in him; he was about 55 
years of age, was by birth an Agow, and had ferved Fafil’s 
father from his infancy, when Kafmati Efhté fucceeded to 
the government of Damot, upon old Fafil’s death*; he had 
been his fervant likewife, as had young Fafil, fo they were 
both at one time fellow-domeftics of Kafmati Efhte. 
Ween Fafil had flain this nobleman, and fucceeded to 
his father’s government of Damot, Shalaka Woldo was 
taken into his fervice as an old fervant of his father; it 
feemed his merit had not entitled him to further advance- 
ment; he had no covering on his head, except long, buthy, 
black hair, which juft began to’ be mingled with grey, but 
no beard, the defect of all his countrymen. He had a cot- 
ton cloth thrown about his fhoulders in many different 
forms, occafionally as his fancy fuggetted to-him’; but, un- 
lefs at night, laid it generally upon one of the mules, and 
walked himfelf, his body naked, his fhoulders only covered 
with a goat’s {kin in form of what the women calla tipper; 
he had alfo a pair of coarfe cotton trowfers that reached to 
- the middle of his thigh, and thefe were faftened at the 
wailtband by a coarfe cotton fath, or girdle, which went fix 
or feven times about his wait, and in-which he ftuck a 
crooked knife; the blade about ten inches long, and three 
inches where broadeft, which was the only weapon he wore, 
and ferved’ him: to-cut his meat, rather than for any wea- 
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*The.perfon here called ald Fafil, is Kafmati Waragna, in the time of Yafous UI. 
