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DIX A N 
" In the evening the Baharnegash visited us with his brother 
who had been a very troublesome fellow; and as we knew that 
he could not cbme for any good purpose, we evaded all com- 
munication, on the plea of our interpreter being out of the way. 
The cause of their visit, as we afterwards learned, was this : the 
Baharnegash had promised us three mules, but being himself in 
possession of only two, he expected to obtain the third from his 
brother. This man, however, positively refused to accommodate 
him, saying, that as we had made him no present we should have 
nothing belonging to him. The Baharnegash used the most urgent 
entreaties ; but all in vain. The only terms on w4iich he would agree 
were, that his brother should give him an equal share of what he 
might receive from us. The Baharnegash told him that he was 
going on with us to Antalow, and that it might be very long before 
he should receive any thing; he was nevertheless willing, to give 
him half, so anxious was he to keep his word with us. His brother, 
however, demanding immediate payment, the Baharnegash was 
under the necessity of sending to a neighbouring village to purchase 
a iliule, #hich was brought' in the evening. 
" The houses of Dixan are flat-roofed, and without windows, and, 
instead of chimneys, have two pots of earthenware rising out of 
the roof, but so nairow as to give vent only to a small portion of the 
smoke: the houses are built round a hill commanding an exten- 
sive prospect of the mountains of T igre^ and country around, which 
consists almost entirely of rocky mountains, on many of which are 
to be observed #ilages constructed much in the same style as at 
Dixan. 
^' Th^ only putblic building in this place is the chapel, which 
