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that he and his party were on that road, did not venture | 
from home with their goods, fo that the day before, which 
‘had been that of the market, no one chofe to run the rifk 
of attending it. . 
Wotpo was very eloquent in praife of this officer the 
Lamb ; he faid he had a great deal more humanity than his 
brother, and when he made an inroad into Gojam, or any 
part of Abyflinia, he never murdered any women, not even 
thofe that were with child; a contrary cuftom it feems pre- 
vailing among all the Galla. I congratulated him upon 
this great inftance of his humanity, which he took very 
‘gravely, as if really intended; he told me that it was he 
that attacked Michael’s horfe at Limjour; and added, that, 
had it been any other, Ayto Welleta Michael’s life would 
not have been fpared when he was taken prifoner. That 
avant of curiofity, inattention, and abfolute indifference for _ 
new objects, which was remarkable in the Jumper, was 
‘very plainly difcernible in this chieftain likewife, and feems 
40 be a characteriftic of the nation. 
Y askrp Woldo what became of thofe 44 Galla who had 
their eyes pulled out, after the battle of Fagitta, by Michael, 
on his return to Gondar. Not one of them, faid he, ever 
_ game into his owncountry. It was reported the hyzxna ate 
them upon the Angrab, where they were turned out to 
_ftarve. I faved three of them, faid I. Yes, anfwered he, and 
others might have been faved too: and then added, in a low 
voice, the hyznas eating them at the Angrab was a ftory 
contrived for the Galla; but we that are Fafil’s fervants 
know they were made away with by his order in Maitfha 
and the Agow country, that none of them might be feen in 
Vou, lil, AA their 
