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nimbly on horfeback, he arrived at Arkeeko without being 

 intercepted, though clofely purfued almoft to the town. 



It was the 19th of September 1 769 when we arrived atMa- 

 fuah, very much tired of the fea, and defirous to land. But, 

 as it was evening, I thought it advifeable to fleep on board 

 all night, that we might have a whole day (as the firft is 

 always a bufy one) before us, and receive in the night any 

 intelligence from friends, who might not choofe to venture 

 to come openly to fee us in the day, at leaft before the de- 

 termination of the Naybe had been heard concerning us. 



Mahomet Gtbberti, a man whom we had perfectly fe- 

 cured, and who was fully inftructed in our fufpicions as to 

 the Naybe, and the manner we had refolved to behave to 

 him, went afhore that evening ; and, being himfelf an Abyf- 

 fmian, having connections in Mafuah, difpatched that fame 

 night to Adowa, capital of Tigrc, thofe letters which I knew 

 were to be of the greateft importance ; giving our friend 

 Janni (a Greek, confidential fervant of Michael, governor 

 of Tigrc) advice that we were arrived, had letters of Meti- 

 cal Aga to the Naybe and Ras Michael ; as alfo Greek letters 

 to him from the Greek patriarch of Cairo, a duplicate of 

 which I fent by the bearer. We wrote likewife to him in 

 Greek, that we were afraid of the Naybe, and begged him 

 to fend to us inftantly fome man of confidence, who might 

 protect us, or at leaft be a fpeitator of what ihould befal us. 

 We, befides, inftructed him to advife the court of Ahyffinia, 

 that \vc were friends of Metical Aga, had letters from him 

 to the king and the Ras, and diftrufted the Naybe of Mafuah. 



Mahomet Gib*] :ti executed this cemmimon in the in- 

 ftant, with all the punctuality of an honeit man, who was 



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