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action of Strates, and heard him huzza; on which they had 
afked Woldo, as he entered into the village, what was the 
meaning of all this? Woldo told them, that the man was — 
out of his fenfes, and had been bit by a mad dog; which 
reconciled them immediately to us. They, moreover, faid, 
he would be infallibly cured by the Nile; but the cuftom, 
after meeting with fuch a misfortune, was to drink the wa- 
ter in the morning fafting. I was very well pleafed both 
with this turn Woldo gave the action, and the remedy 
we ftumbled upon by mere accident, which difcovered a 
conneétion, believed to fubfift at this day, between this river 
and its ancient governor the dog-ftar. heb 
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