Page:Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile - In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 volume 3.djvu/600

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S j6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER

thing I faw was Woldo examining his hurts, or burns, but without any arms. A laugh from without made me direct- ly fuppofe what it was, and I was prefently fully fatisfied by the figure Strates and Woldo made, covered with dirt and dull from the roof; but, while they were entertaining themfelves with this foolifh trick, the thatch that had fal- len upon the fire began to flame, and it was with the ut- mofl difficulty we extinguifhed it, otherwife the whole vil- lage might have been burnt down. — I heard diftinctly the noife of the cataract all this night.

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