ANTALOW. 
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" Thursday, September 12.-1 passed a most wretched and un- 
comfortable night, among swarms of bugs, lice, and fleas. Milk 
was brought to me at the usual hour, and about ten I was invited 
to attend the Ras at breakfast. He received me with his accustomed 
attention, and seated me at his right band, on the same couch with 
himself. His brother Manasse had arrived this morning from An- 
talow, so that there was a very large party ; and brinde and maize 
were handed about to all very briskly. I eat none of the former, 
but drank too much of the latter, and returned at one o'clock to the 
** parsonage," where I remained uninterrupted during the remain- 
der of the day. 
" Friday, September IS.— The quantity of maize I was forced to 
drink yesterday affected my head, and the pain it occasioned pre- 
vented me from sleeping during the night. At four this morning I 
was roused by a message from the Ras, requesting that I would 
attend him on a hunting party. Unwell as I was, I got up, and found 
a mule in readiness for me ; but the Ras was already gone. The 
attendants informed me by signs, that the place where he had turned 
off his dogs this morning was not far off; I therefore followed, and 
rode about four miles to the village of Droosa, a little beyond which 
I fell in with the Ras, and found his sport this day consisted in giv- 
ing directions to his soldiers, who were employed in fixing large 
stones across a rivulet, both to serve as a bridge, and as a dam, to 
form a head of v/ater for the sake hereafter of fishing, an amusement 
of which the Ras is exceedingly fond. He begged, when I had joined 
him, that I would mount a favourite horse, which is led before 
him whenever he goes on parties of this kind. This condescension 
I considered as it really was, an extraordinary favour, for no one 
