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approbation or difapprobation of any thing that had been 

 <lonc, or was doing. 



About the end of June he came at once to Abba Samuel, 

 without announcing himfelf before hand, according to his 

 ufual cuftom, and he paid his firft vifit to the Iteghe, then 

 a fliort one to the king, where I faw him : he was very fa- 

 cetious with me, and pretended I had promifed him ray 

 horfe when I returned from Maitflia, which I excufed, by 

 obferving the horfe was out of town. "Well, well, fays lie, 

 that fhall not fave you ; tell me where he is and I will fend 

 for him, and give you the beft mule in the army in exchange, 

 and take my chance of recovering him wherever he is. With 

 all my heart, replied I ; you will find him perhaps in the 

 valley of Serbraxos, at the foot of the hill, oppofite to the 

 fouth ford of the river Mariam. He laughed heartily at 

 this, fliook me by the hand at parting, faying. Well, well, 

 for all this you fhall not want your mule. 



The king was exceedingly pleafed at what had palTed, and 

 faid, " I willi you would tell me,Yagoube, how you reconcile 

 all thefc people to you. It is a fecret which will be of much 

 more importance to me than to you. There is Guflio now, 

 for example, fo proud of his prefent fortune, that he fcarce- 

 ly will fay a civil word to me ; and Fafd has brought me 

 a lift of his own fcrvants, whom he wants to make mine 

 without afking my leave, (Adera Tacca Georgis, whom he 

 named to be Fit-Auraris to the king, as he had done formerly 

 when he wanted to quarrel with Socinios, Gubena to be 

 Cantiba, and fome others), yet he never fees you come into 

 the room but he begins immediately joking and pleafant 

 converfation, 



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