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They all feemed to have taken my caufe to heart more 

 than I wifhed them to do, for fear it mould be productive of 

 fome new quarrel. For my own part, I never was fo deject- 

 ed in my life. The troublefome profpedl before me pre- 

 fented itfelf day and night. I more than twenty times re- 

 folved to return by Tigre, to which I was more inclined by 

 the lofs of a young man who accompanied me through Bar- 

 bary, and amfted me in the drawings of architecture which 

 I made for the king there, part of which he was flill advan- 

 cing here, when a dyfentery, which had attacked him in 

 Arabia Felix, put an end to his life* at Gondar. A confider- 

 able diflurbance was apprehended upon burying him in a 

 church-yard. Abba Salama ufed his utmoft endeavours to 

 raife the populace and take him out of his grave ; but fome 

 exertions of the Ras quieted both Abba Salama and the tu- 

 mults. 



I began, however, to look upon every thing now as full 

 of difficulty and danger ; and, from this conftant fretting 

 and defpondency, I found my health much impaired, and 

 that I was upon the point of becoming ferioufly ill. There 

 was one thing that contributed in fome meafure to diffipate 

 thefe melancholy thoughts, which was, that all Gondar was 

 in one fcene of feftivity. Ozoro Ayabdar, daughter of the 

 late Welled Hawaryat, by Ozoro Aitafh, Ozoro Efther's fifter, 

 and the Iteghe's youngeft daughter, confequently grand- 

 daughter to Michael, was married to Powuflen, now gover- 

 nor of Begemder. The king gave h er large diftricls of land 

 in that province, and Ras Michael a large portion of gold, 

 VoL ' m - H h mufkets, 



* See Introdu&ion, 



