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little prefent at taking my leave, which he feemed furprifed at ; and, very much contrary to my expectations, had iome difficulty about receiving, faying, he was afhamed that he had not any return for us ; that he was a foldier, and had nothing but the lance in his hand and the goat's fkin on his moulders, neither of which he could be fure to poffefs for twenty-four hours ; he then told us that Fafil had, by that time, pitched his tent at Bamba, within a mile of us, and was to difpatch the wild Galla from thence to their own country : he gave us a man who, he faid, would take care of us, and defired us not to difmifs him till we had feen Fafil, and not to pitch our tent, but rather to go into one of the empty houfes of Bamba, as all the people had fled. We now parted equally contented with each other ; at the fame time I faw he fent off another man, who went fwiftly on, probably to carry advice of us to Falil : we had ftaid. with him fomething lefs than half an hour.
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