1508.] On the Credit due to Bruce’s Travels. 529 
DUMBARTONSHIRE. 
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(To be continued. ) 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
On the crepir due to BRUCE’S TRAVELS. 
(Concluded from p. 450.) 
N early objection was made to Mr. 
Bruce’s description of an Abyssi- 
nian feast. The discredit with which his 
first accounts were received, of the Abys- 
sinians eating raw flesh cut from live ani- 
mals, induced him afterwards to persist 
in his assertion; nor could he decently 
retract in his Travels what he had so pub- 
ficly afhrmed on his arrival, Among the 
first incidents that occurred, on his enter- 
ing Abyssinia, was that of three soldiers 
driving a cow before them, which they 
suddenly tripped up, and cutting a cou- 
ple of steaks from the buttock, skewered 
up the skin, covering the wound with a 
cataplasm of clay. Having finished their 
raw repast, they proceeded with their 
cow, which they reserved for supper, 
when they purposed to enjoy a fuller 
meal with their companions in the even- 
ing, or, as satyrica!ly described, 
Eat halfa cow, and turn the rest to grass. 
Not satisfied with ascribing such a bar- 
barous repast to the wild soldiery, the 
author indulges his genius in the descrip- 
tion of an Abyssinian feast. The animal, 
a cow or bullock, is brought to the door, 
and is literally flayed, and cut up alive, 
into solid square pieces of heef, which 
are brought in raw and quivering, and. 
placed upon cakes of teil before the com- 
pany, who are seated upon benches at a 
long table, each man between two wo- 
men, as in refined society. The women 
wrap up slices of the flesh and cake with 
salt and pepper, into the form of car- 
tridges, with which they cram their male 
associate, who leaning with his hands on 
their knees, chews, as a mark ef grandeur, 
with as much noise as possible, and turns 
his mouth alternately from the one to 
the other, till completely gorged, They 
proceed to sacrifice in the same room, 
bat with the the utmost decency, both to 
Bacchus and to Venus, wlile the heatth 
of each happy couple is toasted; and all 
this is transacted amidst the groans and 
bellowing of the unfortunate animal, 
whose sufferings have been prolonged, by 
avoiding the principal blood-vessels, and 
whose reeking remainsare now abandone 
ed to the servants. | 
These outrageous descriptions aré vin- 
dicated beth by the author and the edi- 
ter 
