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withes. I laid my hand then upon the piftols that fuck ite 
my girdle, ahd drew them out to give them to one of my 
fuite, when Woldo, who apprehended it was for another © 
purpofe, ran fome paces back, and hid himfelf behind Ay=- 
lo’s fervant. We were all diverted at this fright, but none 
fo much as Strates, who thought himfelf revenged for the 
alarm he had given him by falling through the roof of the- 
houfe at Goutto. After having taken off my fath,. “ Here 
is your fafh, Woldo, faid I; but mark what I have faid, and: 
now moft ferioufly repeat to you, Truth and good behavi+ 
our will get any thing from me; but if, in the courfe of: 
this journey, you play one trick more, though ever fo trifling, 
I will bring fuch a vengeance upon your head that you fhall 
not be able to find a place to hide it in, when not the fath 
only will be taken from you, but your {kin alfo will follow: 
it: remember what happened to the feis at Bamba.” 
He took the fafh, but feemed terrified at the threat, and 
began to make apologies. ‘‘Come, come, faid I, we under- 
ftand each other; no more words; it is now late, lofe no 
more time, but carry me to Geefh, and the head of the Nile 
directly, without preamble, and fhew me the hill that fe- 
parates me from it. Hethen carried me round to the fouth 
fide of the church, out of the grove of trees that f{urrounded: 
it, “ This is the hill, fays he, looking archly, that, when 
you was on the other fide of it, was between you and the © 
fountains of the Nile; there is no other; look at that hil- 
tock of green fod in the middle of that watery fpot, it 1s im. 
that the two fountains of the Nile are to be found: Geefh 
is on the face of the rock where yon green trees are: if you 
go the length of the fountains pull off your fhoes as you 
did the other day, for thefe people are all Pagans, worfe 
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