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of no real fervice, as every Amharic foldier would have 
done. On the other hand, his alacrity and refolution, in 
the moment he thought us in danger, exhibited him to our 
view as having on both occafions juft the qualities we could 
have defired. We-now, therefore, fhewed him the utmoft 
civility, fpread a table-cloth on the ground by the brook, 
mixed our honey and liquid butter together in a plate, and 
laid plenty of teff bread befide it. We invited the Lamb to 
fit down and breakfaft with us, which he did, each of us 
dipping our hand with pieces of bread alternately into the 
difh which contained the honey ; but Strates, whofe heart 
was open, for he felt very gratefully the Lamb’s attention 
to fave him from being murdered by the Agows, pulled out 
a large piece of raw beef, part of the piitlote we killed at 
Kelti, which he had perfectly cleared from all incumbrance 
of bones, this he gave to the Lamb, defiring him to divide 
it among his men, which he did, keeping a very {mall pro- 
portion to himfelf, and which he ate before us. Drink we 
had none, but the water of the brook that ran by, for my 
people had finifhed all our other liquors at Kelti after I was 
in bed, when they were taking their leave of Guebra Ma- 
riam, Ozoro-Efther’s fervant. 
“ was now time to purfue our journey ; and, to fhew our 
gratitude for the real fervice this Lamb intended to have 
rendered us, I gave him four times the quantity of tobacco: 
he had got before, and {fo in proportion of every other trifle; 
all thefe he took with abfolute indifference as formerly, 
much as if it had been all his own; he exprefled no fort of 
thanks either in his words or in his countenance; only while 
at breakfaft faid, that he was very much grieved that it had. 
been but a falfe alarm, for he heartily defired that fome rob- 
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