THE SOURCE OFTHENILE. (S6^ 



T SAW this young man with his father at Loheia. He 

 iinderilood no European language ; was juft then returned 

 from hidia, and had a confiderable quantity of diamonds, 

 and otlier precious ftones, to fell. He fpoke with tears in 

 his eyes of Abyffinia, from which he was banifhed, and 

 urged that I Ihould take him there with me. But I had too 

 much at Hake to charge myfelf with the confcquences of 

 anybody's behaviour but my own, and therefore refu- 

 £q(\ it. 



The great favour the Galla were in at court encouraged 

 many of their countrymen to follow them ; and, by the 

 king's defire, two of his uncles were fent for, and they not 

 only came, but brought with them a thoufand horfe. Thefe 

 were two young men, brotlicrs of the queen Wobit, juft now 

 dead. The eldeft was named Brulhe, the younger Lubo. hi 

 an inflant, nothing was heard in the palace but Galla. The 

 king himfelf affeded to fpeak nothing qI^q. He had en- 

 tirely intrufted the care of his perfon to his two uncles ; 

 and, both being men of "intrigue, they thought themfelves 

 fufliciently capable to make a party, fupport it, and place 

 the king at the head of it; and this they cfTecTred as foon as 

 it was conceived, whilft the Abyffinians faw, wkli the utmoft 

 deteftation and abhorrence, a Gallan and inimical govern- 

 ment erected in the very heart or metropolis of their coun- 

 try, 



Wood AGE had been long governor of Amhara. He had 

 fucceeded Palambaras Dure in BacufFa's time, when he had 

 been promoted to the dignity of Ras. 



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