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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: of the rocks pierced our feet; to increase our perplexities we were
alarmed with the approach of an armed troop, which our fear
immediately suggested to be the Galles, who chiefly beset these
passes of the mountains; we put ourselves on the defensive, and
expected them, whom, upon a more exact examination, we found to be
only a caravan of merchants come as usual to fetch salt.
Chapter VIII
They lose their way, are in continual apprehensions of the Galles.
They come to Duan, and settle in Abyssinia.
About nine the next morning we came to the end of this toilsome and
rugged path, where the way divided into two, yet both led to a well,
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