5.i 4 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



initant, Aylo's fervant took hold of me by the moulder to 

 hurry me out of the tent. Fafil feemed to be a good deai- 

 concerncd, for the blood dreamed out upon my clothes. 

 The old man likewife ailllled me when out of the tent ; I 

 found he was Guebra Ehud, Ayto Aylo's brother, whofe 

 fervant we had met on the road. I returned then to my 

 tent, and the blood was foon (launched by warning my face 

 with cold water. I fat down to recollect myfelf, and the 

 more I calmed, the more I was diffatisfied at being put 

 off my guard ; but it is impoffible to conceive the provoca- 

 tion without having proved it. I have felt but too often how 

 much the love of our native foil increafes by our abfence 

 from it ; and how jealous we are of comparifons made to 

 the difadvantage of our countrymen by people who, all pro- 

 per allowances being made, are generally not their equals, . 

 when they would boaft themfelves their fuperiors. I will 

 confefs further, in gratification to my critics, that I was, from 

 my infancy, of a fanguine, paffionate difpofition ; very fen- 

 fible of injuries that 1 had neither provoked noi deferved; 

 but much reflection, from very early life, continual habits 

 of fullering in long and dangerous travels, where nothing 

 but patience would do, had, I flattered myfelf, abundantly 

 fubdued my natural pronenefs to feel offences, which, com- 

 mon fenfe might teach me, I could only revenge upon my- 

 felf. 



However, upon further confultingmyown breafl,I found ; 

 there was another caufe had co-operated ftrongly with the . 

 former in making me lofe my temper at this time, which, 

 upon much greater provocation, I had never done before. 

 1 found now, as I thought, that it was decreed decifively my 

 hopes of" arriving at the fource of the Nile were for ever 



ended ; , 



