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5 34 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER

which there was no fort of occafion for, as they might have examined the words and form in the liturgies, which are in every church ; and I muft here only obferve, that if, as the chaplain of Alvarez fays, the pricft in the pool, on the fefli- val of the Epiphany, was fo fond of the proper words as even, at that time, to fay, " 1 baptife you. in the name of the la- " ther, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft," the words he quotes to mew this immerfion in water on the Epiphany, is a real baptifm, I cannot comprehend why they ihould vary them to other words, when nothing but baptifm is meant. But this I can bear evidence of, that, in no time when I was prcfent, as I have above a hundred times been at the baptifm both of adults and infants, aye, and of apo- ftates too, 1 never heard other words pronounced than the orthodox baptifmal ones, " I baptize thee in the name of " the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft," immer- ging the child in pure water, into which they firft pour a fmall quantity of oil of olives, in the form of a crofs.

The Abyiiinians receive the holy facrament in both kinds in unleavened bread, and in the grape bruifed with the huik together as it grows, fo that it is a kind of marmal- ade, and is given in a flat fpoon : whatever they may pre- tend, fome mixture feems neceflary to keep it from fermen- tation in the ftate that it is in, unlefs the dried duller is frefh bruifed jufl before it is ufed, for it is little more fluid than the common marmalade of confectioners ; but it is perfectly the grape as it grew, bruifed Hones and lkin together. Some means, however, have been ufed, as I fuppofe, to prevent fermentation, and make it keep ; and, though this is con- ftantly denied, I have often thought I tailed a flavour that was not natural to the grape itfelf.

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