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a&ion of Strates, and heard him huzza ; on which they had afked Woldo, as he entered inro the village, what was the ' meaning of all this ? Woldo told them, that the man was out of his fenfes, and had been bit by a mad dog ; which reconciled them immediately to us. They, moreover, faid, he would be infallibly cured by the Nile ; but the cuflom, after meeting with fuch a misfortune, was to drink the wa- ter in the morning failing. I was very well pleafed both with this turn Woldo gave the adion, and the remedy we Humbled upon by mere acciden-t, which difcovered a connection, believed to fubfift at this day, between this river and its ancient governor the dog-ftar.
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