APPENDIX 49 



KANTUFFA, 



THIS thorn, like many men we meet daijy in fociety, has 

 got itfelf into a degree of reputation and refpect 

 from the noxious qualities and power of doing ill which it 

 poileiles, and the conftant exertion of thefe powers. The 

 Abyffinians, who wear coarfe cotton cloths, the coarfeft of 

 which are as thick as our blankets, the fineft equal to our 

 muflin, are in the fame degree annoyed with it The foldier 

 fcreens himfelf by a goat's, leopard, or lion's fkin, thrown 

 over his fhoulder, of which it has no hold. As his head 

 is bare, he always cuts his hair fhort before he goes to bat- 

 tle, left his enemy fhould take advantage of it; but the 

 women, wearing their hair long, and the -great men, whe- 

 ther in the army or travelling in peace,.being always cloath- 

 ed, it never fails to incommode them, whatever ipecies of 

 raiment they wear. If their cloak is fine muflin, the lead 

 motion again!! it puts it all in rags; but if it is a thick, foft 

 cloth, as thofe are with which men of rank generally tra- 

 vel, it buries its thorns, great and fmall, fo deep in it that 



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