Afterwards I Had Some Strong Soup With Meat, Fat, Sour Milk, And Good Bread, All In Clean Vessels; But What Was Better Than All, The People Retired As Soon As They Had Set The Food Before Me, And Did Not Stare At Me As If I Was A Strange Animal.

When I offered to pay these good people, they would not take anything; I had no opportunity of rewarding

Them until the following morning, when I took two men of the family as guard across the mountains, and gave them twice as much as they are generally paid; they thanked me, with touching cordiality, and wished me safety and good fortune on my journey.

2nd August. It occupied three hours to pass the most dangerous part of these desolate mountains. My two armed men would not, indeed, have afforded me much protection against a band of robbers, although they were the means of making the journey less terrible than it would have been if I had gone with my old guide alone. We met several large caravans, but all going towards Oromia.

When we had crossed the mountains, the two men left us. We entered into enormous valleys, which seemed to have been forgotten by nature, and deserted by man. In my opinion, we were not in any degree out of the danger, and I was right; for, as we were passing three ruined cottages in this barren valley, several fellows rushed out upon us, laid hold of our horses' reins, and commenced rummaging my luggage.

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