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chad the archangel ; he faw him jiill before he furprifed 

 the mountain Ha^-amat, but ncitlier at Gondar, nor fince he 

 paiTed the Tacazze, and this makes him forrowful. The 

 fpirit has been afraid to catch cold, faid I, by wetting his 

 feet in that cold fiver. I doubt fo, anfwered Confu ; but the 

 liar of a monk, who my mother fuppofes never eats nor 

 drinks, told him he was to fee him at Serbraxos. 



At this time we heard the noife of horfes, and could dif- 

 cern (as we thought) three men that paffed the bridge of 

 Mogetch brifkly before us. As they feemed to avoid us, fix or 

 eight of Confu's men purfued them at full gallop, but lofl 

 them in the darknefs. They, however, were found to be 

 foldiers of Kafmati Sanuda, who hearing Woodage Afahel 

 had been engaged with Ayto Confu, had come out with the 

 unworthy purpofe of colletfting fome filthy trophies, by 

 mangling the dead or wounded, though thefe muft have 

 been their own companions, the foldiers of Ayto Confu, who 

 had been flain ; for the whole of Woodage Afahel's men 

 had already undergone what Strates emphatically called 

 the operation^ by the knives of Confu's foldiers. ' We now 

 arrived at Kofcam without any adventure, and Confu was 

 laid to repofc, after taking a little food : in obedience to the 

 orders of Ozoro Efther, I lay down by him in the fame apart- 

 ment. 



Early next morning I was fent for by a fervant of Ozoro 

 Efther, to attend Welleta Selafi^e, who I was told was at the 

 point of death. I repaired immediately to the houfe of Ras 

 Michael, where flie then was, but found her without pofil- 

 bility of recovery, having already loft her fpeech. She ex- 

 pired a few minutes afterwards, apparently in violent ago- 



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