CONCLUSION. 447 



I have now exhausted, not my subject, the 

 numerous ideas upon which I have latterly been 

 most inconveniently obliged to crowd together, but 

 the very limited space that I had proposed to 

 myself in my ignorance of book-making, as being 

 sufficient to contain all I had to say respecting my 

 journey, and the ideas and incidents which occurred 

 to me during my sojourn in Abyssinia. Much 

 to my surprise, the manuscript has grown under my 

 hand, and the greatest difficulty that I have had, has 

 been to arrive at the period I have done, before I 

 laid down the pen. 



From this date, however, September the 3rd, 

 having returned to Aliu Amba, from Ankobar, I 

 was confined some time entirely to my bed, during 

 which period my note-book presents such a series of 

 entries, " no better to-day," that I have taken the 

 opportunity thus afforded me of concluding my 

 narrative. 



Macintosh, Printer, Great New-street, London 



