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This Mahometan deputy was named Abdel Jelled, a great 

 coward, who had refufed to bring out his men, tho' fum- 

 moned, to join the king when marching againft Fafil. He 

 had alio quarrelled with the Daveina, and robbed them, fo 

 that they traded no more with Ras el Feel, brought no more 

 horfes, and the diftricl: was consequently nearly ruined, 

 whilft a great outcry was raifed againft Abdel Jelleel by the 

 merchants who ufed to trade at that market, not having 

 now money enough to pay the meery. 



Ammonios, his Billetana Gueta, was the perfon Ayto Confu 

 had deftined to go to Ras el Feel to reduce it to order, and 

 difplace Abdel Jelleel ; but Kas Michael had put him as a 

 man of truft over the black horfe under me, fo he was em- 

 ployed otherwife. Confu himfelf was now preparing to go 

 thither to fettle another deputy in the place of Abdel Jelleel, 

 and he had afked the affiftance of troops from the king, by 

 which this came to my knowledge. 



The firfl time I fawOzoro Efther, I told her, that, unlefs 

 fhe had a mind to have her fon die fpeedily, fhe mould, by 

 every means in her power, diffuade him from his journey 

 to Ras el Feel, being a place where the bloody flux never 

 ceafed to rage ; and this complaint had never perfectly left 

 him fince he had had the fmall-pox, but had wore him to a 

 fhadow. There could be no furer way therefore of deftroy- 

 ing him than letting him go thither as he propofed. He 

 had been for fome time indeed taking bark, which had 

 done him great fervice. His mother Ozoro Efther, the Iteghe, 

 whofe firft favourite he was, and all his friends, now took 

 the alarm, upon which the Ras forbade him pofitively to 

 go. 



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