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of no real fcrvice, as every Amharic foldier would have done. On the other hand, his alacrity and refolution, in the moment he thought us in danger, exhibited him to our view as having on both occasions juft the qualities we could have defircd. We now, therefore, fhewecl him the utinoft civility, fpread a table-cloth on the ground by the brock, mixed our honey and liquid butter together in a plate, and laid plenty of tefT bread befide it. We invited the Lamb to lit down and breakfaft with us, which he did, each of us dipping our hand with pieces of bread alternately into the dim which contained the honey ; but Strates, whofe heart was open, for he felt very gratefully the Lamb's attention to fave him from being murdered by the Agows, pulled out a large piece of raw beef, part of the bullock we killed at Kelti, which he had perfectly cleared from all incumbrance of bones, this he gave to the Lamb, defiring him to divide it among his men, which he did, keeping a very fmall pro- portion to himfelf, and which he ate before us. Drink we had none, but the water of the brook that ran by, for my people had linimed all our other liquors at Kelti after I was in bed, when they were taking their leave of Gucbra Ma- nam, Ozoro Either' s fervant.
It was now time to purfue our journey ; and, to fhew our gratitude for the real Tervice this Lamb intended to have rendered us, I gave him four times the quantity of tobacco he had got before, andfo in proportion of every other trifle; all thefe he took with abfolute indifference as formerly, much as if it had been all his own ; he expreffed no fort of thanks either in his words or in his countenance ; only while at breakfaft faid, that he was very much grieved that it had been but a falfe alarm, for he heartily denred that fome rob- bers
