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their own provinces to terrify the reft of their clans by tie 
mangled appearance they then bore; for this was Ras Mi- 
chael’s intention in disfiguring them, and yet leaving 
them alive ; to prevent therefore the fuccefs of this f{cheme, 
Fafil put them to death in their way before they reached 
their own country. I confefs I was ftruck at the fineffe — 
which completed Waragna Fafil’s character in my mind, 
What, faid I, kill his own people taken prifoners whilft 
fighting for him, merely becaufe their enemies had cruel- 
ly deprived them of their fight! indeed,Woldo, that is. 
not credible. O ho, fays he, but it is true; your Galla. 
are not like other men, they do not talk about what is. 
eruel and what is not; they do juft what is for their: 
own good, what is reafonable, and think no more of 
the matter. Ras Michael, fays he, would make an excellent 
Galla; and do not you believe that he would do any cruel 
action which my matter Fafil would not perpetrate on the 
fame provocation, and to anfwer the fame purpofe ?. 
Ir now occurred to me why the three Galla, whom I had 
maintained at Gondar, had conftantly refufed to return in- 
to their own country with the many fafe opportunities 
which at times had prefented to them, efpecially fince 
the king’s retreat to Tigré; neither had I obferved any de- 
fire in Fafil’s fervants, who occafionally came to Gondar,. 
of helping to reftore thefe unfortunate men to their coun- 
wry, becaufe they knew the fate that awaited them.. 
Attuoucu the Lamb, and the other Galla his foldiers, paid 
very little attention, as I have faid, to us, it was remarkable 
to fee the refpect they fhewed Fafil’s horfe; the greateft 
part of them, one by one, gave him handfuls of barley, and 
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