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ing. I intreated her to continue her kind partiaUty to me the 

 next day, and to judge for ever of the efteeni 1 had for her by 

 my then behaviour. She promifed to do fo with the utmofl^ 

 complacency and fweetnefs, and departed. 



Soon after this, a fervant arrived from Ras Michael, with 

 a magnificent faddle and bridle as a prefent to Engedan, 

 This man told us that a meffenger had come from Waragna 

 Fafil, defiring a place might be marked out for him to en- 

 camp, for he wa,s to join the king early in the morning ; but 

 nobody gave any credit to this, nor did he, as far as I ever 

 heard, advance a foot nearer the camp. The melTenger 

 commanded us all, moreover, to go to bed, which we imme- 

 diately complied with. I only went to the king's tent, where 

 the company was difpcrling, and kifTcd his hand, after which 

 I retired. In my way home to my tent, I favv a faggot lying 

 in the way, when the ftory of the Gurague came prefently 

 into my mind. I ordered fome foldiers to feparate it witlis 

 their lances ; but it had been brought for fuel, at leaft no 

 Gurague was there. 



I WAS no fooner laid upon my bed, than Ifell into a proi- 

 found deep, which continued uninterrupted till five o'clock 

 in tlie morning of the 20th. I had fpared myfelf induftri- 

 oufly in lad night's caroufal, for fear of contributing to a re- 

 lapfe into defpondency in the morning ; but I found all with- 

 in ferene and compofed as it fliould be, and entirely re- 

 iigned to what was decreed, I was perfecftly fatisfied, thac: 

 the advancing or retarding the day of my death was not in 

 the power of the army of Begemder.. I then vifited all the 

 horfes and the black foldiers, and ordered two or three of 

 ihem, who were not perfedly recovered from their hurts,, 



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