540 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
Asout ten o'clock I waited upon cur commander in 
chief the Jumper; he feemed very much embarraficd at 
the vifit, was quite naked, having only a towel about his 
loins, and had been wafhing himfelf in the Kelti, tovery little 
purpofe as I thought, for he was then rubbing his arms and 
body over with melted tallow; his hair had been abun- 
dantly anointed before, and a man was then finifhing his. 
head-drefs by plaiting it with fome of the long and {mall 
guts of an ox, which I did not perceive had ever been clean- 
ed; and he had already put about his neck two rounds of 
the fame, in the manner of a necklace, orrather a folitaire, 
one end of them hanging down to the pit of his flomach, 
Our converfation was neither long nor interefting ; I was 
overcome with the difagreeable {mell of blood and carrion: 
he did not underftand one word of Amharic, Geez, or any 
other language but Galla; he afked no queftions, and fhew- 
ed no fort of curiofity. Woldo, on the other hand, informed: 
himfelf from him of every thing he wanted to know.. 
Tuts Jumper was tall and lean, very fharp faced, with a: 
long nofe, {mall eyes and prodigious large ears; he never- 
looked you in the face, but was rolling his eyes conftantly 
round and round, and never fixing them upon any thing :- 
he refembled very much a lean keen greyhound ; there was 
no fternnefs nor command in his countenance, but a cer 
tain look that feemed to exprefs a vacancy of mind, like 
that of anidiot. With this he was allowed on all hands . 
to be the moft cruel, mercilefs murderer and fpoiler of all 
the Galla. He was very active on horfeback, and very in- 
different about food or fleep. I made hima fmall prefent, 
which he took with great indifference; only told Woldo,. 
_that if L meant it to pay for the bull he had fent me, it 
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