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and placed Amha Yafous befide him : it was eafy to fee his 

 mind was otherwife occupied, and as eafy to perceive by his 

 look, that he gave me credit for my behaviour. When thqy 

 were all feated,^ " Well, fays he, in great good humour, 

 v/hat now, what is the matter ? what can I do for you, Ya- 

 goube ? are the women in your country as idle and fool- 

 ifli as thefe ? has Ozoro Either chofen a wife for you ? 

 llie fliall give you your dinner: I will give her a por- 

 tion ; and as you are a horfeman, the king, with Am- 

 ha Yafous's leave, faid he bowing, fhall give you the com- 

 mand of the Shoa horfe ; I have fcen them ; the men I think 

 are almoft as white as yourfelf." Amha Yafous bowed 

 in return, and faid, " Sir, if the king bellows them fo wor- 

 thily, I promife to bring another thoufand as good as thefe 

 to join them after the rains, before next Epiphany." — " And 

 I, fays Ozoro Eilher, for my part, I have long had a wife for 

 him, but this is not the prefent bufinefs, we know your time 

 k precious, Guangoul is without, and defires an audience 

 of you." — Poh ! fays the Ras, Guangoul is gone to Gufho, 

 at Minziro, and there is like to be a pretty llory : here arc 

 accounts come from Tigre, that he has committed great 

 barbarities in his journey, laid wade fome villages, killed 

 the people, for not furnifhing him with provifions : here in 

 BelelTen he alfo buint a church and a village belonging to 

 the Ircgiie, and killed many poor people; I do not know what 

 he means; 1 hope they will keep him where he is, and not 

 €nid him home again through Tigre. 



A COMMUNICATION of tliis "kind, very uncom.mon from 

 the Ras, occafioned a ferious appearance in the whole com- 

 pany ; but he had no fooner done with fpeaking, than in 

 comes Doho upon his cow : neither man nor woman that 

 4 had 



