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come, and we fhall prefently fee how very dexteroufly he oe 
longed it. 
We arrived, with thefe delays, pretty late at Goutto, (the 
village fo called) and took up our lodgings in the houfe of 
a confiderable perfon, who had abandoned it upon our ap- 
proach, thinking us part of Fafil’s army. Though this ha- 
bitation was of ufe in protecting us from the poor, yet it 
hurt us by alarming, and fo depriving us of the affiftance 
of the opulent, fuch as the prefent owner, who, if he had 
known we were ftrangers from Gondar, would have willing- 
ly ftaid and entertained us, being a ‘relation and friend of 
Shalaka Welled Amilac. 
As we heard diftin@ly the noife of the cataract, and had 
fill a full hour and a half of light, while they were in 
fearch of a cow to kill, (the cattle having been all driven a- 
way or concealed) I determined to vifit the water-fall, left I 
fhould be thereby detained the next morning. As Fafil’s 
—horfe was freth, by not being rode, I mounted him inftead 
of driving him before me, and took a fervant of my own, 
and a man of the village whom Woldo procured for us, as 
I would not allow him to go himfelf. Being well armed, I 
thus fet out, with the peafant on foot, for the cataract ; and, 
after riding through a plain, hard country, in fome parts 
very ftony, and thick-covered with trees, in fomething more 
than half an hour’s eafy galloping all the way, my fervant 
and I came ftraight to the cataract, conducted there by the 
noife of the fall, while our guide remained at a confider- 
able diftance behind, not being able to overtake us. 
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