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fmt two, from Adowa to the north-eaft. Others fay it is on 

 l'y five miles from the Red Sea, while it is an hundred. Ft 

 is very extraordinary, that thefe errors mould occur in 

 the fituation of a place built by their own hands, and where 

 their body long had its refidence ; and, what makes it more 

 extraordinary (till, it was the domicil which they firft occu- 

 pied, and quitted laft. 



The kindnefs, hofpitality, and fatherly care of Janni ne- 

 ver ceafed a moment. He had already reprefented me in 

 the moil favourable light to the Iteghe, or queen-mother, 

 (whofe fervant he had long been) to her daughter Ozoro 

 Either, and Ozoro Altafh ; and, above all, to Michael, with 

 whom his influence was very great ; and, indeed, to every 

 body he had any weight with ; his own countrymen, Greeks, 

 Abyflinians, and Mahometans ; and, as we found afterwards, 

 he had raifed their curiofity to a great pitch. 



A kind of calm had fpread itfelf univerfally over the 

 country, without apparent reafon, as it has been in general 

 obferved to do immediately before a ftorm. The minds of 

 men had been wearied rather than amufed, by a con- 

 usant feries of new things, none of which had been fore- 

 feen, and which generally ended in a manner little expected. 

 Tired of gueffing, all parties feemed to agree to give it over, 

 till the fuccefs of the campaign mould afford them furer 

 grounds to go upon. Nobody loved Michael, but nobodv 

 neglected their.own fafcty fo much as to do or lay any thing 

 againft him, till he either fhould lofe or eftablitfi his good, 

 fortune, by the gain or lofs of a battle with Fafil. 



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