TREATY OF PEACE. 15 



upon the Wallasmah, whose servant he was, at 

 the same time begging me to return with him, for 

 which purpose, and for my accommodation, he had 

 brought my mule along with him. I positively 

 refused, on the plea, that their King had promised 

 mine, that Englishmen were to travel unmo- 

 lested through the country, alluding to the treaty, 

 and that, accordingly, if they now used force to 

 take me back to Farree, it would bring the matter 

 to an issue, and my people would then see the 

 real value of the word of Sahale Selassee. Seeing 

 I was determined not to return with them they 

 agreed to compromise the matter, upon my 

 promising to remain at Garcia Mulloo, and not 

 attempt to proceed farther towards Ankobar, until 

 the King's pleasure respecting me should be 

 known. This I was induced to do by the missel- 

 annee's pacific appeal that I would not do anything 

 which would occasion him to be imprisoned, and 

 all his property confiscated. 



Our interpreter, Brekka, was a scamp of a 

 renegado, who had been a Christian, but was 

 converted to the Islam faith, by the promise of a 

 situation under the Wallasmah, whose district, 

 the province of Efat, is inhabited chiefly by 

 Mahomedans. The contiguity of the two faiths 

 among a people of one origin, affords an interesting 

 opportunity of examining the first effect of 

 differences in religious belief, and which leads, 

 in the course of time, to the division of one family 

 of man into two distinct nations, differing in 



