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number of birds and beads of prey, efpecially the former, 

 follow an Abyflinian army pace by pace, from the firft 

 day of its march till its return, increaling always in pro- 

 digious proportion the more it advances into the coun- 

 try. An army there leaves nothing living behind, not the 

 veftige of habitation, but the fire and the fword reduces 

 everything to a wildernefs and folitude. 



The beafts and birds unmolefted have the country to 

 themfelves, and increafe beyond all poflible conception. 

 The flovenly manner of this favage people, who after a 

 battle neither bury friends nor enemies, the quantity of 

 beafts of burden that die perpetually under the load of 

 baggage, and variety of mifmanagement, the quantity of 

 offal and half-eaten carcafes of cows, goats, and fheep, 

 which they confume in their march for their fufienance, all 

 furnifh a flock of carrion fufncient to occafion contagious 

 diflempers, were there not fuch a prodigious number of 

 voracious attendants, who confume them almoft before pu- 

 trefaction. In their voracious ftomachs lies the grave of 

 the bravefl foldier, unlefs very high birth or office, or very 

 extraordinary affection in their attendants, procure them a 

 more decent, though more uncommon fate, a fepulchre 

 in a neighbouring church-yard. There is no giving the 

 reader any idea of their number, unlefs by comparing them 

 to the fand of the fea. While the army is in motion they 

 are a black canopy, which extend over it for leagues. When 

 encamped, the ground is difcoloured with them beyond the 

 fight of the eye, all the trees are loaded with them. I need 

 not fay that thefe are all carrion birds, fuch as the vulture, 

 kite, and raven, that is a fpecies to which nature has refu- 

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