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dccrcpid, and fo very ill, that he faid he could go no farther 

 than the church, where he was pofitively reiblved to take 

 •up his abode that night. I felt his pulie, examined every 

 part about him, and faw, 1 thought evidently, that no- 

 thing ailed him. Without lofing my temper, however, I 

 told him firmly, That I perceived he was an impoftor ; that 

 he ihould conlider that I was a phyfician, as he knew I cu- 

 red his mailer's firft friend, Welleta Yafous : that the feel- 

 ing of his hand told me as plain as his tongue could have 

 done, that nothing ailed him ; that it told me likewife he 

 had in his heart fome prank to play, which would turn out 

 very much to his difadvantage. He feemed diimayed after 

 this, faid little, and only defired us to halt for a few minutes, 

 and he mould be better ; for, fays he, it requires flrength in 

 us all to pais another great hill before we arrive at GeehV 



" Look you, faid I, lying is to no purpofe ; I know where 

 Geefli is as well as you do, and that we have no more 

 mountains or bad places to pafs through; therefore, if you 

 choofe to flay behind, you may ; but to-morrow I fhall in- 

 form Welleta Yafous at Bure of your behaviour." I faid 

 this with the moil determined air poffible, and left them, 

 walking as hard as I could down to the ford of the Nile. 

 Woldo remained above with the fervants, who were load- 

 ing their mules ; he feemed to be perfectly cured of his 

 lamenefs, and was in cloie converfation with Ayto Aylo's 

 fervant for about ten minutes, which I did not choofe to 

 interrupt, as I faw that man was already in pofTefnon of 

 part of Woldo' s fecret. This being over, they all came down 

 to me, as I was fketching a branch of a yellow rofe-tree, a 

 number of which hang over the ford. 



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