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that he and his party were on that road, did not venture •from home with their goods, fo that the day before, which had been that of the market, no one chofe to run the rifk of attending it.
Woldo was very eloquent in praife of this officer the Lamb; he faid he had a great deal more humanity than his brother, and when he made an inroad into Gojam, or any part of Abyflinia, he never murdered any women, not even thofe that were with child ; a contrary cuftom it feems pre- vailing among all the Galla. 1 congratulated him upon this great inttance of his humanity, which he took very gravely, as if really intended ; he told me that it was he that attacked Michael's horfe at Limjour ; and added, that, had it been any other, Ayto Welleta Michael's lire would not have been fpared when he was taken prifoner. That want of curiofity, inattention, and abfolute indifference for new objects, which was remarkable in the Jumper, was very plainly difcernible in this chieftain likewile, and feems .to be a character i (lie of the nation.
I asked Woldo what became of thofe 44 Galla who had their eyes pulled out, after the battle of Fagitta, by Michael, on his return to Gondar. Not one of them, faidhe, ever came into his own country. It was reported the hyama ate them upon the Angrab, where they were turned out to ilarve. I faved three of them, laid I. Yes, anfwered he, and others might have been faved too: and then added, in a low voice, the hyamas eating them at the Angrab was a ftory contrived for the Galla ; but we that are Faiil's fervants know they were made away with by his order in Maicfiia and the Agow country, that none of them might be feen in
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