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This man was now immediately called for. He went 

 by the nickname of Gou/, or the Giant, from his fmall fize 

 and debility of body. " Is this your man, fays Guflio, who 

 fliot Woodage Afahel on the hill ?" " O, by no means, fays 

 Goul ; he was an old man with a long grey beard, and a 

 white cloth round his head. This man I know well. I faw 

 him with Fafil. This is Yagoube, the king's friend; he 

 would not do fuch a thing." " No, certainly he would nor, 

 fays Gu(ho, and fo mind that you tell Woodage Afahel's 

 friends." Upon this he withdrew. And now, fays Gufho, 

 talk no more upon this affair, I will take the rell upon my- 

 felf. There is a fcrvant of Metical Aga's now in the camp, 

 fent over by defire of your friends and countrymen * at Jid- 

 da, to know if you are alive and well. He has alfo a mef- 

 fage to the king, and perhaps I may fend him to the camp 

 to-morrow, but more probably defer it till we meet at Gon- 

 dar. Meantime, remember my injuncflion to you, to keep 

 clofe by the perfon of the king, and then no accident 

 can befal you in the confufion that will foon happen. I 

 thanked him for his friendly advice, which I promifed to 

 follow. I then allced for Ayto Confu and Engedan, as alfo 

 for Metical Aga's fcrvant, but he anfwered, I could not then, 

 fee them. 



He had now in his hand, fome filk paper, in which they 

 generally wrap their ingots of gold, and he was preparing 

 to flip this into my hand at parting, in the fame manner 

 we do the fee of a phyfician in Europe. " You forget, 

 faid I, what you mentioned in the morning, that I am no 



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* Cajtain Thomas Price of tlrj Lyon ax Bombay.. 



