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the beauty and variety of its plumage.’ I ftopt to make a 
rough {ketch of it, which might be finifhed at moré leifure = 
this was {carcely done; and we again moving forwards ons 
our journey, when we heard a confufion of fhrill, barbarous’ _ 
cries, and prefently faw a number of horfemen pouring — 
down upon us, with their lances lifted up in a pofture 
ready to attack us immediately. The ground was woody: 
and uneven, fo they could not make the {peed they feemed’ 
to defire, and we had juft time to put ourfelves upon our 
defence with our firelocks, mufquets, and blunderbufles in: 
our hands, behirid our baggage. Woldo ran feveral paces. 
towards them, knowing them by the cry to be friends, even: 
before he had feen them, which was, EFafil ali, Fafil ali— 
there is none but Fafil that commands here. Upon feeing us with- 
out any marks of difcompofure, they all ftopt with Woldo,, © 
and by him. we learned that this was the party we had: 
pafled commanded by the Lamb, who, after we had left him,. 
had heard that five Agow horfemen had pafled: between the: 
army and. his party, and from the {hot he had feared they. 
might have attempted fomething againft us,.and he hadi 
thereupon come to our afliftance with. all the fpeed pof- 
fible. — ! ee es 
Tuus did we fee that this man, who,. according to our: 
ideas, feemed in underftanding inferior to moft of the brute 
creation, had yet, m executing his orders, a difcernment,. 
punctuality, activity, and fenfe: of duty, equal to any Chrif-- 
tian officer who fhould have had a like commiffion; he» 
mow appeared to us ina quite different light than when 
we firft had met him; and his inattention, when we were 
with him, was the more agreeable, as it left us at our entire: 
tberty, without teazing or molefting us,. when he could be 
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