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eight piaftcrs, not the twentieth part of what he would have 

 exacted. One reafon of this feverity was, that, while I was 

 in Mafuahjanni had entertained this man at his own houfe ; 

 and, knowing the ufual vexations the caravans met with at 

 Kella, and the long time they were detained there at confi- 

 derable expence, had obtained a promife from the Shum, 

 in confideration of favours done him, that he mould let us 

 pafs freely, and, not only fo, but mould fhew us fome little 

 civility. This promife, now broken, was one of the articles 

 of delinquency for which he was punhlied. 



Cohol, large needles, goats ikins, coarfe fciflars, razors, 

 and fteels for flriking fire, are the articles of barter at Kel- 

 la. An ordinary goat's fkin is worth a quart of wheat- flour. 

 As we expected an order of deliverance, all was ready up- 

 on its arrival. The Moors with their afTes, grateful for the 

 benefit received, began to blefs the moment they joined us 4 

 hoping, in my confideration, upon our arrival at the 

 cullomhoufe of Adowa, they might meet with further fa- 

 vour. 



Yasine, in the four days we had Maid at Kella, had told 

 me his whole hiflory. It feems he had been fettled in a 

 province of AbyfTmia, near to Sennaar, called Ras el Feel ; 

 had married Abd el Jilleel, the Shekh's daughter ; but, grow- 

 ing more popular than his father-in-law, he had been per- 

 fecuted by him, and obliged to leave the country. He began 

 now to form hopes, that, if I was well received, as he faw, 

 in all appearance, I was to be, he might, by my intereft, be 

 appointed to his father-in-law's place ; efpecially if there 

 was war, as every thing feemed to indicate. Abd "el Jilleel 

 was a coward, and incapable of making himfelf of perfonal 



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