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I saw this young man with his father at Loheia. He 

 imderftood no European language ; was juft then returned 

 from India, and had a confiderable quantity of diamonds, 

 and other precious ftones, to fell. He fpoke with tears in 

 his eyes of Abyffinia, from which he was banifhed, and 

 .urged that I mould take him there with me. But I had too 

 much at flake to charge myfelf with the confequences of 

 anybody's behaviour but my own, and therefore refu- 

 sed it. 



The great favour the Galla were in at court encouraged 

 many of their countrymen to follow them; and, by the 

 Jung's defire, two of his uncles were fent for, and they not 

 only came, but brought with them a thoufand horfe. Thefe 

 were two young men, brothers of the queen Wobit, juft now 

 dead. The eldeft was named Brulhe, the younger Lubo. In 

 an inftant, nothing was heard in the palace but Galla. The 

 king himfelf affected to fpeak nothing elfe. He had en- 

 tirely intrufted the care of his perfon to his two uncles • 

 and, both being men of intrigue, they thought themfelves 

 fumciently capable to make a party, fupport it, and place 

 the king at the head of it; and this they effected as foon as 

 it was conceived, whilft the Abyffinians faw, with the utmoft 

 •dcteftation and abhorrence, a Gallan and inimical govern- 

 ment erected in the very heart or metropolis of their coun- 

 try. 



Woodage had been long governor of Amhara. He had 

 fucceeded Palambaras Dure in Bacuffa's time, when he had 

 been promoted to the dignity of Ras. 



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