THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. atai 



faw them fpeedily difappear, but like living men, ri- 

 ding and running down the dedivicy fo as even to ex^ 

 cite laughter. Woodage Afahel, with two men only, 

 bravely gained the top of the mountain, and, as he 

 palled the king's tent, pulled off his red fillet, making a fign 

 as of faluting it, and then galloped through the middle of 

 the camp. He was now defcending unhurt upon the left, 

 where Abou Barea had been engaged and beaten, when 

 Sebaftos, a Greek, the king's cook, feventy-five years of age, 

 of whom I have already fpoken in the campaign of Mait- 

 Iha, lying behind a ftone, with his gun in his hand, fee- 

 ing the troops engage below, fired at him as he palR-d : 

 the ball took place in the left fide of his belly. He was 

 fcen (looping forward upon the tore of his faddle, with fome 

 men fupporting him on each fide, in his way to his tent, 

 where he died in the evening, having, by his behaviour that 

 day, deferved a better fate. Sebailos reported this feat of 

 his to the king, but it was not believed, till a cctnfirmatioa 

 of the facH: came in the evening, when Sebaflos was cloatlied, 

 and received a reward from, the king. 



Tesfos had been obferved nor to fire fince -Woodage Afa- 

 hel gained the llccp part of the hill, and it was thought it 

 was from fear of gallnig his friends ; but it was foon known 

 to be owing to another caufe. fCefla Yafous had ordered two 

 of his nephews to take a body of troops, with lances and 

 fliields onh , and thefe were to go round the Ras's tent, and 

 down the lide of the hill, till they were even with Tesfos 

 behind the fcreen where he lay. Thefe two young men, 

 proud of the fole coxumand which tliey had then received 

 for the firft time, executed it with great alacrity ; and tho* 

 they were ordered by ilieir uncle to watch the time when. 



Vol. IV. C c Tesfos 



