ANTALOW. 
lady is very affable and free, and spoke to me always with her face 
unmuffled. She is very rehgioiis, and reads the Bible twice every 
day to her cousin Mantwaub. She asked me for some beads of the 
mock pearl kind, which I promised to send to her from Antalow, 
but immediately presented her with a cross, which pleased her so 
much, that she gave me her hand on the occasion. 
" Tuesday, September 24.' — The Ras called me about five this 
morning, and we left Ghelicut soon afterwards, proceeding by the 
same route as on our journey out from Dixan. The Ras amused 
himself with his dogs, while I pushed on in front, anxious to see 
Mr. Carter, and reached Antalow about nine. We were afterwards, 
on the Ras's arrival, invited to breakfast with him, and when the 
meal was over returned to our apartment. 
" Wednesday, September 2,5, — I amused myself in the early part 
of the morning by noting down in our journal, the remarks made 
by me during the fifteen days I was absent from Antalow with the 
Ras, and highly regret that I was so situated, from ignorance of the 
language, as not to have had the opportunity of a free communi- 
cation with him and his chiefs, as I should have been able to have 
made my observations more fully. 
" Troops had for several days past been assembling at this place 
from all quarters of the Ras's dominions, for the purpose of attend- 
ing a review that was to take place, the next day. Numbers were 
exercising in presence of the Ras, within the court yard of his 
house. I joined him about ten o'clock: he had previously seated 
himself in the verandah of a detached building, with his two bro- 
thers and other principal chiefs, to view the troops. The number 
of people collected on this occasion was great, but most of them 
