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as well as from his own confeillon, repented of his refolution 

 as foon as we were gone, and had determined on foot to fol- 

 low us, when he heard of this opportunity of Ozoro Efther's 

 fervant being fent on a meffage, and that princefs was fo 

 well pleafed with his anxiety that fhe gave him a mule that 

 he might not retard her fervant. 



This Greek had known Fafil intimately, both when he 

 was a private man in Kafmati Efhte's time, and afterwards, 

 when he was governor of Damot, for he was a fervant in 

 the palace when Joas was king, as all the Greeks were; had 

 a company of f ufileers, and one or two other fmall appoint- 

 ments, all of which were taken from him, and from moil of 

 the other Greeks, upon the death of the dwarf, who, 1 be- 

 fore mentioned, was mot on the fide of Ras Michael by an 

 unknown hand upon his firft arrival at Gondar. He now 

 lived upon the charity of the queen- mother, and what he 

 picked up by his buffoonery among the great men at court. 

 We found that in Shalaka Woldo we had got a man of more 

 underftanding than our friend Strates, but much about his 

 equal in mimicry and buffoonery. 



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