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of the unfortunate Woofheka, with whom he was well ac- 

 quainted, fwinging upon a tree, and drying in the wind* 

 He was fo terrified, and ftruck with fuch horror, at the fighr, 

 that he was in a kind of hyfleric fit, cried, flarted, laughed 

 hideoufly, and feemed as if he had in part loft his fenfes. 



I was fatisfied by the flate I faw him in, though he had 

 left Ibaba three days, that, as the firft fight of Woofheka's 

 fluffed ikin rauft have been immediately before he went to 

 the Ras, he could not have had any diflinct or particular 

 converfation with him on my account ; and it turned out 

 after, that he had not fpoken one word upon the fubjeet 

 from fear, but had gone to the tent of Negade Ras Maho- 

 met, who carried him to Kefla Yafous ; that they,, too, fee^ 

 ing the fright he was in, and knowing the caufe, had gone 

 without him to the Ras, and told him of my arrival, and of 

 the behaviour of Abba Salama, and my fear thereupon, 

 and that I was then in the houfe of Hagi Saleh, in the 

 Moorim town. The Ras's anfwer was, " Abba Salama is an 

 afs, and they that fear him are worfe. Do I command in 

 Gondar only when I flay there ? My dog is of more confe- 

 quence in Gondar than Abba Salama." And then, after 

 paufmg a little, he faid, " Let Yagoube flay where he is in 

 the Moors town ; Saleh will let no priefls trouble him 

 there." Negade Ras Mahomet laughed, and faid," We 

 will anfwer for that ;" and Petros fet out immediately up- 

 on his return, haunted night and day with the ghoft of his 

 friend Woofheka, but without having feen Ras Michael. 



I thought, when we went at night to Ayto Aylo, and he 

 had told the flory diftinctly, that Aylo and he were equally a- 

 fraid, for he had not, or pretended he had not, till then 



heard 



