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CHAPTER XVI. 



Visit from Sheik Tigh. — Strange ne\v#.- — Arrival of Abcloanarch.- — 

 Situation of my house. — Wallata Gabriel.- — Baking bread. — 

 Vapour bath.' — Cure for hernia. 



After my visit to the market, I was confined to 

 my house for two or three days by illness, but 

 feeling a little better this morning (August 1st), I 

 brought out a small saw I was possessed of, and 

 began to amuse myself, in giving the last finish to 

 the roof, by removing the projecting ends of the 

 cane rafters, which made the low eaves look 

 very ragged. Whilst thus employed, Sheik Tigh, 

 who had been absent some days at a " tescar" or 

 funeral feast of a frontier Islam Governor, called, 

 and after congratulating me upon having come into 

 some property at last, gave me the astounding 

 information that Tinta had been removed from the 

 government of the town, and a rich Hurrah 

 merchant, who had come as an Ambassador to 

 Sahale Selassee, from the Imaum of that city, was 

 now the Governor. 



The day that I left Miriam's house, I heard that 

 a Hurrahgee kafilah was coming into Shoa, and 



