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in the camp." " I fancy, faid I, endeavouring to give a light 

 turn to the converfation, they have not often wherewithal 

 to get drunk in your camp." " Not this lafl year, fays he, 

 laughing, there were no houfes in the country." " But let 

 me only merit, faid I, Welleta Selaffe's friendship, by ma- 

 king him the meffenger of good news to Guebra Mafcal, 

 that he is at liberty, and you have forgiven him." " At li- 

 berty ! fays he, Where is he ?" " In your houfe, faid I, fome- 

 where, in irons." " That is Eflher's intelligence, continued 

 the Ras ; thefe women tell you all their fecrets, but when I 

 remember your behaviour to them I do not wonder at it, 

 and that confideration likewife obliges me to grant what 

 you afk. Go, Welleta SelafTe, and free that dog from his col- 

 lar, and direct him to go to Welleta Michael, who will 

 give him his orders to levy the meery in Woggora ; let him. 

 not fee my face till he returns. 



Ozoro Esther gave us breakfafl, to which feveralof the 

 Greeks came. After which I went to Kofcam, where I heard 

 a thoufand curfes upon Guebra Mafcal. The whole affair 

 was now made up, and the king was acquainted with the 

 iffue of it. I flood in my place, where he fhewed me very 

 great marks of favour ; he was grave, however, andforrow- 

 ful, as if mortified with what had happened. The king order- 

 ed me to flay and dine at the palace, and he would fend me 

 my dinner. I there faw the fons of Kafmati Eflite, Aylo, 

 and Engedan, and two Welleta Selaffes ; one the fon of Te- 

 cla Mariam, the other the fon of a great nobleman in Go- 

 >am, all young men, with whom I lived ever after in perfect 

 familiarity and friendfhip. The two lafl were my brethren 

 Baalomaal, or gentlemen of the king's bed-chamber. 



They 



