S1I4 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER* 



Others are mentioned in Elias's letter to the conful as 

 having been in Abyffinia. He calls them thofe of the league 

 of Michael and Samuel^ of whom we fhall fpeak afterwardsr. 

 But, even though the French conful had ordered his nation 

 to drive all the fubjedls of Sennaar from their houfes and 

 fervice, none of thefe miffionaries were afraid to return and 

 abide at Sennaar, becaufe they knew the murder of the 

 ambaflador was the work of their own hands, and, without 

 their inlligation, would never have been committed. 



The unlucky melTenger, Elias, was again about to enter 

 Sennaar, when he received information that du Roule was 

 aflaffinated. If he had fled haftily from this inaufpicious . 

 place upon the murder of Yafous, his hade was now ten- 

 fold, as he confidered himfelf engaged in thx; fame ciix:um~ 

 fiances that had involved M. du Roule's attendants in hiS' 

 misfortunes. 



The king, upon hearing the account given by Elias of 

 the melancholy fate of the ambaflador at Sennaar, was fo 

 exafperated, that he gave immediate orders for recalling 

 fuch of his troops as he had' permitted to go to any confl- 

 derable diftance ; and, in a council held for that purpofe, lie 

 declared, that he confidered the death of M. du Roule as an 

 afli"ont that immediately afli'eded his crown and dignity. 

 He was, therefore, determined not topafs it over, but to 

 make the king of Sennaar fenflble that he, as well as all 

 the other kings upon earth, knew the neceflity of obferving 

 the law of nations, and the bad confequcnce. of perpetual 

 jpetaliations that mufl follow the violation of it. In the 

 mean time, thinking that the baflhia of Cairo was the cauie 

 pf this, he wrote the following letter to him. 



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