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learnt then, that Aliu Amba was the town 

 appointed for the people belonging to it, as 

 Channo w 7 as for the Aclal kafilahs. I sent 

 Walderheros to Tinta's house to get more informa- 

 tion, but he had already left the town and gone to 

 Angolahlah to see the Negoos ; as I supposed, to 

 remonstrate. I did not tell Sheik Tigh I was very 

 sorry at the news he brought me, because, as he 

 was a Mahomedan, he seemed so to enjoy the 

 circumstance of having a governor of his own 

 religion, and my regret, as a Christian, I was afraid, 

 woidd only elate him the more. I did the good 

 man wrong by my unworthy suspicion., for he was 

 certainly one of the best-hearted men I ever met. 

 On asking him who the new governor was, and 

 what business he had come upon to Shoa, he told 

 me that his name was Abdoanarch, and the 

 Wizeer of Sheik Houssein, Imaum of Hurrah, and 

 that he had come to induce the Negoos to join in a 

 league with all the other monarchs of Southern 

 Abyssinia to prevent the ingress of Europeans into 

 that country. I was not well enough to ask many 

 questions, but felt glad, that the return of the Em- 

 bassy to the coast had been decided upon, previous to 

 the arrival of Abdoanarch from Hurrah, and that 

 consequently he could not boast of having effected 

 such a desideratum among the Mahomedans of Shoa, 

 The bestowal of the government of Aliu 

 Amba upon the Hurrah ambassador, was a proof 



