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pon of offence or defence; for a man of confequence, as. he 
was, could not fuppofe a poffibility of danger while he was 
in the territory of his mafter. Sometimes he had a long 
pipe in his hand, being a great f{moker; at other times, a 
ftick of about three feet long, fomething gia: than one’s 
thumb, with which he dealt about him very liberally, either 
to man, woman, or beaft, upon the flighteft provocation ; he 
was bare-legged and footed, and without any mule, but kept 
up with us eafily at whatever pace we went. With all this 
he was exceedingly fagacious and cunning, and feemed to 
penetrate the meaning of our difcourfe, though fpoke in a 
language of which he did not underftand a fyllable. 
As for Shalaka Welled Amlac, he was aman whom I 
fhall hereafter mention as having been recommended to 
me by Ayto Aylo foon after my coming to Gondar. I did | 
not, however, choofe to let Fafil know of this conneétion, 
for fear he might lead him to fome gainful impofition for 
his own account in the courfe of my JOURNEY, through © 
Maitfha. 
Ar a quarter paft two o’clock of the 31ft of O@ober we 
halted for a little on the banks of the river Chergué, a 
fmall and not very rapid ftream, which coming from the 
fouth-weft, runs N. E. and lofes itfelfin the lake Tzana. At 
three o’clock in the afternoon we paffed the fmall river of 
Dingleber, and in a quarter of an hour after came toa vil- 
ae Bie vet name fituated upon the top of a rock, which we 
afcended; here the road comes clofe to the end of the lake, 
and ane it and the rock is a very narrow pafs through 
which all’ provifions from the Agows and Maitfha muft go; 
when, therefore, there is any mT in the fouth part 
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