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he gave me to join the king. I am a ftrangcr, and Habie 

 to err, vvhilft, for the fame reafon, I am entitled to all your 

 protections and forgivennefs. I am, moreover, the king's 

 llranger, and as fuch, entitled to fomething more as long as 

 I conducft myfelf with propriety to every one. I have never 

 fpoken a word but in Guebra Mafcal's praife, and in this I 

 have done him no more than juflice ; his impatience per- 

 verted what I had faid ; but the -real truth, as I fpoke it, re- 

 mains in the ears of the king and of thofe that were by- 

 Handers, to whom I appeal. 



Every thing went after this in the manner that was to 

 be wiflied. Guebra Mafcal and I vowed eternal friendfhip to 

 each other, of which Kefla Yafous profeiTed himfelf the 

 guarantee. All this pafTed while I was binding up his head; 

 he went again to the king. For my own part, tired to 

 deuth, low in fpirits, and curfmg the hour that brought me to 

 fuch a country, I almoil regretted I had not died that day in 

 the field of Serbraxos. I went to bed, in Ay to Engedan's tent, 

 refufingtogo to Ozoro Efther, who had fentfor me. I could 

 not help lamenting how well my apprehenfions had been 

 verified, that fome oJF our companions at laft night's fupper, 

 fo anxious for the appearance of morning, fliould never 

 fee its evening. Four of them, all young men, and of great 

 hopes, were then lying dead and mangled on the field ; two 

 others befides Engcdan had been alfo wounded. I had, how- 

 ever, a found and refrefliing fleep. I think madnefs would 

 have been the confequence, if this neceffary refrefliment 

 had failed me ; fuch was the horror I had conceived of my 

 prefent fitpation. 



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