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CHAP. XI. 



The Author obtains Liberty to return Home — Takes Leave of the Iteghc 

 at Kofcam — Laji Interview ivith the Monks. 



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INGE the queen came again to Kofcam, I had pafled a 

 ' great part of my time there, but my heakh de- 

 clining every day, I had obtained, with great difficulty, 

 liberty from her to attempt my return home. The king, 

 too, after a hundred exceptions and provifos, had at length 

 been brought to give an unwilling confent. I had feen alfo 

 Metical Aga's fervant, who, upon finding Ras Michael was 

 difgraced, would not ftay, but hafled back, and would fain 

 have prevailed upon me to return with him thro' Tigre into 

 Arabia. But befides that I was determined to attempt com- 

 pleting my journey through Sennaar and the defert, I by 

 no means liked the rifk of paffing again through Mafuah, 

 to experience a fecond time the brutal manners of the 

 Naybe and garrifon of that place. 



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