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l^nts I made you when at Serbraxos, even though you mif- 

 bchaved there. Your meflage to me while below at the ri- 

 ver was the language of a rebel. Are you willing to be 

 declared in rebellion ?" He faid, " By no means ; he had 

 always been a faithful fervant to Ayto Confu, Ras Michael, 

 and the king, and had come to Serbraxos upon receiving the 

 firfl order, and would obey whatever I fliould command." 

 " Then pay me the meery you owe me, and begin firft by 

 bringing two camels." " He faid, he never refufed the ca- 

 mels, and the meflage he fent was but in fport." " And was 

 it fport too. Sir, faid I, when you faid you would fend me 

 the flefh of elephants to eat ? Did you ever know a Chriftian 

 eat any fort of flefh that a Mahometan killed ?" He anfwer- 

 ed. No ; and begging my pardon, promifed he would fend 

 me bread and honey, and the camels fliould be ready in the 

 morning." They muft be ready to-night, faid I, and before 

 night too; for I am to difpatch a fervant this evening to Ay- 

 to Confu to complain of your behaviour, as I do not know 

 what you may meditate againft us in our way to Ras el 

 Feel." He begged now, in the moft earnell manner, I would 

 not complain ; and faid, he would have all his fpies out to 

 the eaftward, that not a vShangalla fliould pafs to moleft us, 

 without our being informed of them. Some of his princi- 

 pal people now interfering, I confented to forget and for- 

 give what had pafled. We then ate bread, and drank beer, 

 to fliow the reconciliation was flncere, and fo the afl'air 

 ended. - 



About fix in the evening came two flrong camels, and 

 about thirty loaves of bread made of Dora; two large wheat 

 loaves for me, as alfo a jar of wild honey, of excellent fla- 

 vour, and with thefe a prefent to Ayto Confu's fervant. 



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