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country a walk of a few hours would take 

 him. I did not show any lucifer matches, for I 

 recollected that the Portuguese traveller Burmudez, 

 had been confined in this very prison, and I did 

 not know whether an act of incendiarism might not 

 at a future time be available as a means of escape ; 

 for, it must be understood, at the time of this visit 

 I had been threatened if I attempted to leave 

 Shoa with the Embassy on their return to Aden, 

 to be confined in Guancho, so desirous was the 

 Negoos of detaining me with him. 



Guancho, the State prisoners, nor the anxiety of 

 his Majesty that I should remain in his service, can 

 be entered into now ; this is anticipating the occur- 

 rence of events, the relation of which must be 

 excused from the increasing contraction of my 

 limits, that prevents me from holding but a little 

 more pleasant converse with my reader, who, I 

 hope, so far has been conducted with an amused 

 interest through the scenes of Dankalli and Abys- 

 sinia life, in which I was a participator during my 

 sojourn in those countries. 



Recalled to a recollection of the circumstances of 

 the condition of the Royal relations, by a remark of 

 the Negoos, Bethlehem turned to me, and com- 

 mented upon the sanitary observances I had been 

 recommending for the benefit of my supposed 

 patient, as he was a prisoner, and I then learnt, 

 that the Negoos was consulting me upon the subject 

 of a disease, to which he was himself subject. The 

 symptoms that he had detailed plainly indicated a 



