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been looked upon as equal to a renunciation of Chrhti- 

 anity. 



By Janni's fervant, who had accompanied us from 

 Adowa, his kind and friendly mailer had wrote te 

 Aylo, of whom I have already fpoken. He was the < 

 ftant patron of the Greeks, and had been fo alio of . 

 the Catholics who had ventured into this country, and been 

 forced after to leave it. Though no man profelTed greater ve- 

 neration for the priefthood, no one privately detailed more 

 thofe of his own country than he did; and he always pre- 

 tended that, if a proper way of going to Jerufalem could be 

 found, he would leave his large eftates, and the rank he 

 had in Abyffinia, and, with the little money he could mu- 

 ll er, live the remaining part of his days among the monks,, 

 of whom he had now accounted .himfelf one, in the convent 

 of the holy fepulchre. This perhaps was, great part of it, 

 imagination ; but, as he had talked himfelf into a belief 

 that he was to end his days either at Jerufalem, which was 

 a pretence, or at Rome, which was his inclination, he will- 

 ingly took the charge of white people of all cornniunions 

 who had hitherto been unhappy enough to ftray into Abyf- 

 finia, 



It was about (cyqw o'clock at night, of the 15th, when Hagi 

 Saleh was much alarmed by a number of armed men at his 

 door; and his furprifewas ftill greater upon feeing Ay to Aylo, 

 who, as far as I know, was never in the Moorim town be- 

 fore, defceud from his mule, and uncover hi3 head and. 

 moulders, as if he had been approaching a perfon of the 

 fir ft diftincriom I had been leading the prophet Enoch, 

 which janm had procured me at Adowa ; and "Wcmmcr's 



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