Yet, With So Unlovely And Forbidding An Appearance, This Man Was In Reality As Innocent And Docile As A Lamb. He Wore On His Head A Small Rush Hat, In Shape Like A Common Earthenware Pan Inverted, Or Like The Hats, Which Are Worn By The Lower Class Of The Chinese.

His breast was enveloped in a coarse piece of blue cloth; from his left shoulder hung a large quiver

Of arrows, and in his right hand he held a bow, which he brandished like a lance; a short pair of trousers covered his thighs, and leathern boots, fantastically made, incased his feet and legs. His skin was of jetty blackness, his forehead high, but his tremendous beard, which was slightly tinged with grey, contributed, perhaps, more than any thing else, to impart that wildness and fierceness to his looks, which at first inspired the travellers with a kind of dread of their leader.

Thus escorted they travelled onwards, and after a hasty ride of six hours from Eetcho, they beheld from a little eminence, those black naked hills of granite, at whose base lay the metropolis of Youriba. About an hour afterwards, they entered the gates of that extensive city. As being consistent with etiquette, they halted under a tree just inside the walls, till the king and the eunuchs were informed of their arrival, which having been done after a wearisome delay, they rode to the residence of the chief eunuch Ebo, who, next to the king, was the most influential man in the place.

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