MISCELLANIES, 
The whole company then knelt 
down, and joined in reciting the 
Lord’s. Prayer. 
Here, as I was given to under- 
stand, the ordinary ceremony of 
baptism concludes: but as the 
boy had been a Musselmaun, he 
was, in addition; crossed with 
the consecrated oiloverevery joint 
and limb, or altogether, thirty- 
six times in different parts of his 
body. After this, he was wrapped 
in a clean white linen cloth, and 
placed for a moment in my arms, 
the priests telling me, that “ I 
must henceforth consider him 
verily as my son.” The high 
priest did not take any active part 
in this ceremony, but the whole 
was conducted with great deco- 
rum, and a due degree of solem- 
nity. The boy afterwards, ac- 
cording to the custom of most 
of the Eastern churches, was ad- 
mitted to partake of the Holy 
Communion. On our return 
from the church, the high priest 
accompanied us home, and con- 
tinued with us nearly an hour. 
He paid me many compliments on 
what had passed, and declared, 
that, “I had done an act which 
would for ever’ be recorded in 
their books; as the baptism of 
the boy most clearly proved, that 
the English were not “ Franks’ 
(alluding to the conduct of the 
Jesuits about baptism), but that 
we adhered to the pure religion 
of the Apostles. Aftersome con- 
versation of this kind, in which 
he expressed the highest opinion 
of our doctrines, he ended by re- 
‘peating nearly the same words 
which he had before used to the 
Ras : “ we go on in the dark, not 
knowing what is right or what is 
wrong, but I believe we shall do 
537 
no good until we get a lesson 
from you;” “ and~ now,” he 
added, rising from his seat, “ at 
the desire of the Ras, and from 
the friendship I bear you, I have 
to pray to God for your future 
prosperity ;” he then recited a 
long prayer for our jsafe return, 
to which we with great sincerit 
answered, ‘ Amen.’’ 
ADOWA. 
(From the Same.) 
The town of Adowa is situated 
partly on the side, and partly at 
the bottom of a hill, a circum- 
stance very unusual in Abyssinia ; 
and the houses, which are. all of 
a conical form, are pretty regu- 
larly disposed into streets or al- 
leys, interspersed with wanzy 
trees and small gardens, some of 
which are cultivated -with con- 
siderable care; the town itself 
being plentifully supplied — with 
-water from three streams, which 
take their course through the 
valley below. The number of 
residents in this place, may, on 
a general calculation, be esti- 
mated at full eight thousand, as 
I reckoned in it more than eight 
hundred habitations, . each of 
-which, on a moderate computa- 
tion, being supposed to contain 
ten inmates, would altogether 
amount to a sum probably falling 
short of the actual population. 
Adowa may be regarded as the 
chief mart for commerce on the 
eastern side of the Tacazze, all 
the intercourse between the in- 
terior provinces and the coast be- 
ing carried on through the mer- 
chants residing at that place; in 
consequence of which the Maho- 
medans there have retained a 
greater degree of importance 
