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this place : I had left my whip in the first cave ; all our Habesh 
attendants supposed it to be in the other, to which they sent one of 
the boys to fetch it ; in the mean time I myself descended into the 
first, and brought it up ; nor was it possible to persuade them that 
Calam Negus had not brought it to me out of the other, which 
absurd story they often afterwards seriously repeated. These 
curious remains of antiquity lie nearly west of the hills above 
Adowa, which were at this time in sight, and about a mile from 
the skirts of Axum, to which we descended in a south-western 
direction. 
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