I was tired and worn out by the time sunset sent them to their several homes, and left me to move into the house, where I sat upon one of my boxes until the alga had been forced into a narrow recess between the double walls, and my bed reported by the indefatigable Walderheros to be at length ready for me to retire to rest. The pretty wife of Sheik Tigh had brought me some teff bread for supper, as she expected there would be a deal too much for us to do on the first day of my removal, not to feel obliged to any one taking the trouble of baking off our hands. The “wort,” or cayenne soup being also prepared, after a light Abyssinian supper, I slept better than I expected, or could have hoped for. CHAPTER XIV. Division of time.--My new servant, Goodaloo.--Thatching house.-- Islam assistants.--Kindness of Tinta.--Finish roof.--Feast upon the occasion.--Remarks upon practice of eating raw meat. The Abyssinians divide the day and night into eight portions of three hours each, and as they commence their fasts the evening preceding, it is to be presumed that they begin a new day at sunset, like the Jews and Arabs. Three hours after sunset is _leilet_, “evening,” all the time intervening between nine o’clock and twelve being so called. From “night’s noon,” or _aculilielet_, until _duro-oitshiart_, “cockcrow,” is another term of three hours, and from cockcrow to _twart_, “sunrise,” is three more; after twart is _arrafat_, or “nine o’clock;” then _aculican_, “mid-day,” between which and sunset is _tuzziart_, or “afternoon.” During the first night after taking possession of my new house, about the hour of “duro-oitshiart,” (here let the reader learn a little Amharic), I was awakened, by a loud thunder-storm, to the disagreeable discovery that my new residence was not water-proof, for the roof admitted a great deal more rain than it threw off, and had not Walderheros constructed a kind of pent-house over my bed with a stiffly-dried ox-hide, I should have been very soon wet through. The necessity, too, of having some kind of candle or other on emergencies, was forcibly suggested to us, by the difficulty we experienced in getting the damp fire-wood lighted, by the blaze of which alone we could see to arrange our substitutes for umbrellas. Walderheros, however, soon overcame all difficulties, and after extending his bed, the aforesaid skin, over me for my protection, he coiled himself up under a huge Amharic shield, tilted upon its edge, and supported by a stick in that position.