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pay; this word was no fooner uttered, when, apparentl} 
in a moft violent paflion, he leapt up, laid by his pipe, took 
his ftick, and ran into the midft of them, crying out with 
violent execrations, And who am I? and who am I then? a 
girl, a woman, or a Pagan dog like yourfelves? and who is 
Waragna Fafil; are you not his flaves? or to whom elfe do 
you belong, that you are to make me pay for the confe-~ 
quences of your devilifh idolatries and fuperftitions? but 
you want payment, do ye? here is your payment: he then > 
tuckt his clothes tight about his girdle, began leaping two 
or three feet high, and laying about him with his ftick 
over their heads and faces, or wherever he could ftrike 
them. - 
ArrTer this Woldo wrefted a lance from a long, aukward 
fellow that was next him, ftanding amazed, and levelled the 
pointat himinamanner that Ithought to fee the poor peafant 
fall dead in an inftant: the fellow fled in atrice, fo did they 
all toa man ; and no wonder, for in my life I never faw any 
one play the furious devil fo naturally. Upon the man’s ~ 
running off, he cried out to my people to give him a gun, 
which made thefe poor wretches run fafter and hide them. 
felves among the bufhes: lucky, indeed, was it for Woldo 
that my fervants did not put him to the trial, by giving 
him the gun as he demanded, for he-would not have ven- 
tured to fire it, perhaps to have touched it, if it had been to 
have made him mafter of the province. 
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I, wo fat a fpectator-on the other fide, thought we were | 
now ina fine fcrape, the evening coming on at a time of 
the year when it is not light at fix, my baggage and fer- 
vanis on one fide of the river, myfelf and beafts on the 
4 other, 
