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lieve or difpute with you the vanity of having killed men ; 

 many men were flain at that battle ; fomebody mud, and 

 you may have been the perfon who flew them ; but do you 

 think that I can believe that Fafil, fo deep in that account 

 of blood, could rule the Agows in the manner he does, if 

 he could not put a fervant of his in fafety among them 20 

 miles from his refidence ; do you think I can believe this ?" 

 " Come, come, faid Aylo's fervant to Woldo, did you not hear 

 that truth and good behaviour will get you every thing you 

 afk? Sir, continues he, I fee this afFair vexes you, and what 

 this foolifli man wants will neither make you richer nor 

 poorer ; he has taken a great defire for that crimfon filk-fafh 

 which you wear about your middle. I told him to flay till 

 you went back to Gondar ; but he fays he is to go no far- 

 ther than to the houfe of Shalaka Welled Amlac in Maitfha, 

 and does not return to Gondar; I told him to ftay till you 

 had put your mind at eafe, by feeing the fountains of the 

 Nile, which you are fo anxious about. He faid, after that 

 had happened, he was fure you would not give it him, for 

 you feemed to think little of the cataract at Goutto, and of 

 all the fine rivers and churches which he had fhewn you ; 

 except the head of the Nile mail be finer than all thefe, 

 when, in reality, it will be juft like another river, you will 

 then be diilatisfied, and not give him the fafh," 



I thought there was fomething very natural in thefe 

 fufpicions of Woldo ; befidcs, he faid he was certain that, if 

 ever the falh came into the fight of Welled Amlac, by fome 

 means or other he would get it into his hands. This ra- 

 tional difcourfc had pacified me a little; the fafh was a hand- 

 fome one ; but it m'uft have been fine indeed to have flood 

 for a minute between me and the accomplishment of my 



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