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and marched to the village of Sahaiia, where most of these depre- 
dators live, to demand satisfaction. Nothing however was settled 
yesterday, nor was any blood spilt on the occasion; and though it 
is supposed that matters will be accommodated (to enforce which 
Ayto Welleta Michael to day again marches out to Sahana), it is 
the opinion of my informant, that the cattle will not be returned, 
as the parties aggrieved stand much in awe of Thadoo, who is very 
powerful when his forces are collected. 
" We left this place about nine A. M. attended by the Chief of 
the village, but had not travelled above two miles, before we were 
desired by our guides to halt at the bottom of a hill on one side of 
the plain of Ayaddah, on which are the twelve villages of Amba 
Manut. After a long consultation between Negada Moosa and Gue- 
bra Selasse on one side, and the Chiefs of the villages above who 
had come down to meet us, on the other, the former endeavoured 
to prevail on us to stop for the rest of the day. This I refused : upon 
which the Chiefs surrounded us, and with most earnest and humble 
supplications (placing at the same time stones upon their heads and 
necks), endeavoured to persuade us that their lives would not be 
safe if we did not comply. After many fruitless endeavours to get 
away quietly, by remonstrating with our two guides upon the ab- 
surdity of this detention, I was at last actually compelled to force 
my way through the throng, and gallop off to my companions, who 
had gone on a little way before ; but all my endeavours to prevent 
so serious a loss of time were to little purpose ; for, after going about 
two miles farther, we arrived at another village, when the rain came 
on so violently, that we were not sorry to take up our abode for the 
night, in a good house prepared for our reception. 
