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Gommendation of the young man, and his honourable ac- 

 tion, adding, that the prefervation of kings was a gift of 

 Providence particularly referved for the people of Amhara. 

 He then ordered new cloaths to be brought and put upon 

 Tecla Mariam, who fcrupled to take off his cowl ; on which 

 Guflio violently tore it from his head, daftied it on the floor, 

 ftamped twice on it with his foot, and then threw it behind 

 the back of the fofa. At parting, Gufho ordered him five 

 ounces of gold, a large prefent for one that loved money as 

 Guflio did, commanding him llriclly to return to his duty 

 and profeffion, and ordering me to carry him to the king, 

 and fee him reinflated in his office in the palace. 



I THEN defired his permiffion to vifit the fick, and left 

 ^ ipecacuanha and bark with Antonio, (his Greek fervant,) 

 and dire(5lions how to adminifter them. One of his ne- 

 phews, (Ayto AderclTon) the young man who had loftGufho's 

 horfe, had the fmall-pox, upon which I warned Gufho 

 ferioufly of the danger to which he expofed all his army 

 if that difeafe broke out amongll them, and advifed him to 

 fend his nephew forthwith to the church of Mariam, under 

 the care of the priefts, which he did accordingly. 



The t^nt being cleared, he alked me if I had feen Welleta 

 Selalle ; if I was with her when fhe died ; and who was faid 

 to have poifoned her, Ras Michael or herfelf, or if I had ever 

 heard that it was Ozoro F.fther? I told him her friends 

 had fent for me from the camp, but miffed me, not know- 

 ing I was at Kofcam with Ayto Confu, who had been 

 wounded ; but that I could have been of little fervice to 

 her if they had found me fooner: That flie had fcarce 

 any figns of life when I entered her room, and died foon 

 after: That ihe conteffed flie had taken arfenic herfelf, and 



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