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the horfe which I rode upon yefterday, when I came here to encamp; but do not mount it yourfelf, drive it before you faddled and bridled as it is ; no man of Maitfha will touch you when he fees that horfe ; it is the people of Maitiha whole houfes Michael has burnt that you have to fear, and not your friends the Galla.
I then took the moft humble and refpectful leave of him poffible, and alfo of my new-acquired brethren the Galla, praying inwardly I might never fee them again. I re- commended myfelf familiarly and affectionately to the re- membrance of Welleta Michael, the Ras's nephew, as well as GuebraEhud; and turning to Fafil, according to the cuf- tom of the country to fuperiors, afkcd him leave to mount on horfeback before him, and was fpeedily out of fight. Shalaka Woldo (the name of my guide) did not fet out with me, being employed about fome affairs of his own, but he prefently after followed, driving FauTs horfe before kim.
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