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moreover, undertake, that we fhall gain more by this than 
by any other method we could have purfued.” “ There is’ 
one thing, however, fays Woldo, you would not furely have 
me free them the dues paid by every village where a king’s 
fervant is employed to conduct ftrangers, as Iam you.” “ No, 
no, I do not go fo near as that ; we fhall only buy what you 
would have otherwife taken by force for my ufe.” 
“Some years ago, fays Woldo, when I was a young man, 
in king Yafous’s time, a white man, called Negadé Ras 
Georgis, had both Geefh and Sacala given him by the king 3 
he went there twice a-year, and ftaid a month or more at a 
time; he was a great hunter and drinker, and a devil for 
the women ; he not only fpent what he got from the vil- 
lage, but all the money he brought from Gondar into the 
bargain; it was a jovial time, asI have heard; all was mer- 
riment: The firft day he came there, fome of the men of 
Sacala, out of fport, difputing with three of the Agows of 
Zeegam, fell to it with their knives and lances, and four 
men were killed in an inftant upon the fpot; fine ftout 
fellows, every one like a hon; good men all of them; there 
are no fuch days feen now, unlefs they come about when 
- you are there, and then I fhall have my fhare ofevery thing”. 
“ Woldo,faid I, with all my heart; I fhallbe other wife employ- 
ed; but you fhall be at perfect liberty to partake of every - 
fport, always excepting thediverfion of killing fourmen.” But 
I had obferved this day, with fome furprife, that he doubt- 
ed feveral times whether we were on the way to the foun- 
tains of the Nile or not; and! did not think this profpect - 
of entertainment which I held cut to him was received 
with fuch joy as I expected, or as if he meant to partake of 
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