THE SOURCE OE THE NILE. ^ 



i: be ambafTadors or private merchants, becaufe we love 

 *' thofe that are of our religion. We receive with pleafure 

 " thofe who do not oppofe our laws, and we fend away thofe 

 '" that do oppofe them. For this reafon we did not receive 

 " immediately Jofeph * with all his companions, not choo- 

 " ling that fuch fort of people mould appear in our prefence, 

 " nor intending that they mould pafs Sennaar, in order to 

 " avoid troubles which may occafion the death of many ; 

 "" but with refpecl to you, have nothing to fear, you may 

 %t come in all fafety, and you mall be received with ho- 

 *' nour." — Written the 10th of the month Zulkade, Anno 

 1 1 1 8, /. e. the 21ft of January of the year 1706. 



c3* The addrefs is — " Let the prefent be delivered to M» 

 " du Roule at the town of Sennaar." 



I shall only obferve upon this letter, that all the priefls, 

 who had nocked to Sennaar before M. du Roule arrived 

 there, difappeared upon his near approach to that city, after 

 having prepared the mifchief which directly followed. And, 

 no fooner was the murder, which they before concerted, com- 

 mitted, than they all nocked back again as if invited to a 

 feflival. M. de Maillet fpeaks of feveral of them in his let- 

 ters, where he complains of the murder of du Roule, and 

 fays that they were then on their way to enter Abyffinia. 

 Of thefe probably was this Jofeph, whom Tecla Haimanout 

 {trictly prohibits to come farther than Sennaar, having feen 

 what his father had written concerning him in the firft let- 

 ters Elias was charged with. 



3 tJ 1 Others 



* Vid, the letter as quoted above, 



