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Hamed Chamie ; I immediately sent for the Baliarnegash, and re- 
presented to him my surprise at what had passed: assuring him 
that I should leave Dixan in three days, and, if the letter should 
not arrive at Antalow before me, the blame would fall upon him. 
I afterwards thought it expedient to inclose the letter to Bashaw 
Abdallah, as the communication from Adowa to Antalow appeared 
more open than from this place. The Baharnegash attempted, but 
in vain, to prevent the letter being sent, by telling us he had in- 
formation that the mules would be here to-morrow. 
" In the evening there arrived a man from the village of Dagozie, 
two days journey hence, with intelligence that the mules from 
Adowa were near at hand. He brought also a lean cow from his 
uncle, who is Kantiba, or chief of the village above mentioned, as 
a present; in return for which I gave him two pieces of cloth. 
This, however, did not satisfy him ; for, when we had retired to 
rest, he came to inform me, that, as he was about to set off for 
Hamazen, if I had any thing to give him, he begged to receive it 
immediately. After enquiring what were his demands, I learned 
that he had the modesty to expect a gift of an equal value with the 
mule he rode upon, which he estimated at the trifling sum of 
forty dollars ; upon this I referred him to Hamed Chamie, as was 
invariably my custom on such occasions, and he soon got rid of 
' him, by recommending him to take his cow back again, for which 
h e thought he had already been most amply paid. 
" August 11.— In the course of this morning two men arrived, 
bringing intelligence from Negada Moosa, that the mules would be 
here on the morrow ; but we had so many similar accounts, that 
I told the Baharnegash I should pay no farther attention to verbjal 
