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CHAPTER V. 



Staying at Angolahlah. — Waterfall into the Tcherkos river. — Dim'- 

 cult}' in obtaining the stores. — Journey to Ankobar. — Female 

 slaves of the Negoos. — Belief of the Shoan Church. — Father 

 Tellez. — Vegetables introduced into Shoa. 



June 1st. — This morning Capt. Harris and Mr. 

 Scott were busily engaged writing a strong remon- 

 strance to the King upon the subject of the deten- 

 tion of the latter in Farree, and the seizure by the 

 Wallasmah, of the despatches and stores. I had 

 waived all consideration of the indignities offered 

 to myself, as I saw that from some inexplicable 

 reason Capt. Harris wished to restrict the letter to 

 a notice of the imprisonment of Mr. Scott ; although 

 I was rather surprised that the letter which was 

 written in English should be taken by that gentle- 

 man himself, with a Persian interpreter, who spoke 

 Amharic very imperfectly, to explain it. However, 

 they did not see the Negoos, and beyond the letter 

 being duly entered in the record-book of the 

 Embassy, no other steps were taken on account of 

 the infraction of the commercial treaty which had 

 been entered into between Sahale Selassee, Negoos 

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