THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 5-23 



*^ be ambafladors or private merchants, becaufe we love 

 " thofc that are of our reUgion. We receive with pleafure 

 " thole who do not oppofe our laws, and we fend av/ay thofe 

 " that do oppofe them. For this reafbn we did not receive 

 " immediately Jofeph * with all his companions, not choo- 

 " fmg that fuch fort of people Ihould appear in our prefence, 

 " nor intending that they fliould pafs Sennaar, in order to 

 " avoid troubles which may occafion the death of many ; 

 *' but with refpedl to you, have nothing to fear, you may 

 " come in all fafcty, and you fliall be received with ho- 



« nour." Written the 10th of the month Zulkade, Anno 



1 1 18, /. e. the 2ift of January of the year 1706. 



aj= The addrefs is — " Let the prefent be delivered to M, 

 " du Roule at the town of Sennaar." 



I SHALL only obferve upon this letter, that all the priefts, 

 who had flocked to Sennaar before M. du Roule arrived 

 there, dif appeared upon his near approach to that city, after 

 having prepared the mifchief which diredtly followed. And, 

 no fooner was the murder, which they before concerted, com- 

 mitted, than they all flocked back again as if invited to a 

 feftival. M. de Maillet fpeaks of feveral of them in his let- 

 ters, where he complains of the murder of du Roule, and 

 fays that they were then on their way to enter Abyffinia. 

 Of thefe probably w^as this Jofeph, whom Tecla Haimanout 

 ftriaiy prohibits to come farther than Sennaar, having feen 

 what his father had written concerning him in the firft let- 

 ters Elias was charged with. 



3 U 2 Others 



* Vid. the letter as quoted above. 



