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the law of nations, he difdained to defend it by any other 

 means, remitting his revenge to the guardians of that law, 

 and he exhorted all his attendants to do the fame. But M. 

 Mace the Drugoman, young and brave, and a good horfe- 

 man, was not of the Iheep kind, to go quietly to the 

 flaughter. With his piflols he fhot two of the afTamns that 

 attacked him, one after the other, dead upon the fpot ; and 

 was continuing to defend himfelf with his fword, when a 

 horfeman, coming behind him, thruft him through the 

 back with a lance, and threw him dead upon the ground. 



Thus ended the fecond attempt of converting Abymnia 

 by an embafly. A fcheme, if we believe M. de Maillet, which 

 had coll government a considerable expence, for in a memo- 

 rial, of the ill of October 1706, concerning the death of M. 

 du Roule, he makes the money and effects which he had 

 along with him, when murdered, to amount to 200 purfes, 

 or L. 25,000 Sterling. This, however, is not probable ; be- 

 caufe, in another place he fpeaks of M. du Roule's having 

 demanded of him a fmall fupply of money while at Sen- 

 naar, which friar Jofeph, a capuchin, refufed to carry for 

 him. Such a fupply would not have been neceJTary if the 

 ambaflador had with him fuch a fum as that already men- 

 tioned ; therefore I imagine it was exaggerated, with a 

 view to make the Turkifh baflia of Suakem quarrel with 

 the king of Sennaar about the recovering it, 



The friars, who were in numbers at Sennaar, left it im- 

 mediately before the coming of M. du Roule. This they 

 might have done without any bad intention towards him ; 

 they returned, however, immediately after his murder. 

 This , I think, very clearly conftitutes them the authors of 



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