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have met with a better reception, but that he had now brought m 
a couple of bullocks ; he also mentioned, that on hearing we were 
trayeliing this way, he had deferred his intended attack on Shihah. 
He then rose up, and went away with as little ceremony as he came^ 
and in the evening we received from him some milk and sixty-live 
cakes of telF bread two feet in diameter, as also twenty-five of the 
same kind from Welleta Samuel. 
" August 21.— Though we rose at a very early hour this morn- 
ing, it was eleven o'clock before all was ready for our departure: 
in the midst of our preparation we were joined by the young chief 
Aggoos : he contented himself with looking on in silence, till all our 
mules were loaded, and then by blovvs and threats, very speedily 
made his people take up the remainder of our baggage. 
" Almost the whole of this part of the country consists of rocky 
hills and cultivated valleys, through which our road wound in a 
general direction from south-east to south-west. About six miles 
from Calaut, we passed GuUimuckida and Ersubhah on our right 
hand. We had scarcely gone two miles farther, when we were 
overtaken by the young warrior Aggoos, attended by two of 
his fighting men on horseback. He stopped to speak to Hadjee 
Hamed; but his impatient spirit could not brook travelling at the 
slow rate we were going ; accordingly, in a few minutes, be galloped 
away, and we soon lost sight of him behind the hills in our front. 
A messenger on horseback soon after met us to gain intelligence of 
our approach, and with him our friend Negada Moosa rode for- 
ward to get all things in readiness for our reception. The country 
was very r ich in pasturage, and we saw vast herds of cattle feeding 
in the dififerent valleys, also a few horses, of a small breed, but which 
