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Negade Ras Mahomet, of whom we have already fpoken } . 

 brother to Hagi Saleh, who had procured me my firft lodg- 

 ing at Gondar, was head of all the Mahometans in that ca- 

 pital, nay, I may fay, in Abyflinia. He, too, was a favourite 

 of the Ras, and fhewed the fame attachment to me, on ac- 

 count of Metical Aga, as had his brother Saleh. This man 

 came to me one morning, and told me, that Yafine, whom 

 I had brought with me to Abyffinia, and was recommended 

 to me by Metical Aga, had married Abdel Jelleel's daughter, 

 and that a fon of Saleh had married a daughter of Yaiine's. 

 He faid there was not a man in Abyflinia that was a braver 

 foldicr and better horfeman than Yafine ; that he had no 

 love for money, but was a man of probity and honour, as 

 indeed I had always found him ; that the people of Ras el 

 Feel, to a man, wimed to have him for their governor in the 

 room of Abdel Jelleel ; and that all the Arabs, as well as 

 Shckh Eidele, governor of Atbara, for Sennaar, wifhed the: 

 fame. 



Mahomet did not dare to fpeak for fear of Ozoro Either, 

 who was thought to favour Abdel Jelleel, but he promifed,. 

 that, if Ayto Confu would appoint him inftead of Abdel Jel- 

 leel, he would give him 50 ounces of gold, befides what Ya- 

 fine mould allow upon his fettlement, and would manage 

 the affair with Michael when he had leave fo to do. He 

 added, that his brother Saleh mould furnifh Yafine with 

 200 men from the Mahometans at Gondar, completely arm- 

 ed with their firelocks, and commanded by young Saleh ia 

 perlon. 



I was not at this time any judge of the expediency of 

 the meafure ; but one refoiution i had made, and deter- 

 mined 



