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but of this I could’ find no ‘traces among them. I faw no 
plant of this kind in their whole country, excepting fome 
large bamboo-trees. ‘This plant, in the Agows language, ‘is 
_ called Krihaha. It grows in great quantity upon the fides 
of the precipice of Geefh, and helps to conceal the cavern 
we have already mentioned; but though wé cut feveral 
pieces of thefe canes, they fhewed no fort of emotion, not 
to be the leaft interefted in what we were doing. 
Our bufinefs being now done, nothing remained 
but to depart. We had paifed our time in perfect har- 
mony ; the addrefs of Woldo, and the great attachment of 
our friend Irepone, had kept our houfe in a chearful abun- 
dance. We had lived, it is true, too magnificently for phi- 
lofophers, but neither idly nor riotoufly ; and I believe ne- 
ver will any /overeign of Geefh be again fo popular, or 
reign over his fubjects with greater mildnefs. I had prac- 
tifed medicine gratis, and killed, for three.days fucceflively, 
a cow each day for the poor and the neighbours. I had 
cloathed the high prieft of the Nile‘from head:to foot, as 
alfo his two fons, and had decorated two of his daughters 
with beads of all the colours of the rainbow, adding eve- 
ry other little prefent they ‘feemed fond of, or that we 
thought would be agreeable. As for our amiable Irepone, 
we had referved for her the choiceft of our prefents, the 
moft valuable of every article we had with us, and a large 
proportion of every one of them ; we gave her, befides, fome 
gold; but fhe, more generous and nobler in her fentiments 
than us, feemed to pay little attention to thefe that an- 
‘nounced to her the feparation from her friend; fhe tore 
her fine hair, which fhe had every day before braided in a 
mewer and more graceful manner; fhe threw herfelf upon 
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