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had been infedled with the fmall-pox, happily recovered, 

 and was fettled at Kofcani in a houfe of my own, for- 

 merly belonging to Baflia Eufebius, my friend Ayto Aylo 

 recommended to my care a man from Maitlha, with two 

 fervants, one of whom, with his mailer, had been taken ill 

 of the intermitting fever. As I was fupplied plentifully 

 with every necefTary by the Iteghe, the only inconvenience 

 that I fuffered by this was, that of bringing a ftranger and 

 a difeafe into my family. But as I was in a ftrange coun- 

 try, and every day flood in need of the affiilance of the 

 people in it, it was necclTary that I fliould do my part, 

 and make myfelf as ufeful as poffible when the oppor- 

 tunity came in my way. I therefore fubmitted, and accord- 

 ing to Ayto Aylo's defire, received my two patients with 

 the bed grace poffible ; and the rather, as I was told that 

 he was one of the mod powerful, refolute, and befl-attend- 

 ed robbers in all Maitfha ; that he lay dire(5tly in my way 

 to the fource of the Nile ; and that, under his protetSlion, I 

 might bid defiance to Woodage Afahel, confidered as the 

 great obflacle to my making that journey. 



The fervant was a poor, timid wretch, exceedingly afraid 

 of dying. He adhered ftridlly to his regimen, and was very 

 foon recovered, h was not fo Vv^ith Welled Amlac ; he had, 

 as I faid, another fervanr, who never, that I fav/, came with- 

 in the door; but as often as I was out attending my other 

 patients, or with the hcghe, which was great part of the 

 morning, he ftole a vifit to his mafler, and brought him 

 as mnch raw meat, hydromel, and fpirits, as, more than 

 once, threw him into a fever and violent delirium. Luckily 

 I was early informed of this by the fei'vant tliat was reco- 

 vered, and who did not doubt* but this was to end in his 



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