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thought a greater breach of delicacy to have refufed than to 
have complied :— i 
But what fuccefs Vanefla met 
Is to the world a fecret yet; 
Can never to mankind be told, 
Nor fhall the confcious mufe unfold. 
Fye upon the confcious mufe, fays lord emery: and fye, too, 
fay 1:—a man of honour and gallantry fhould not permit 
himfelf fuch a hint as this, though the Red Sea-was between 
him and his miftrefs. 
Ir was impoflible to fleep; the whole night was one con- 
tinued ftorm of thunder, rain, and lightning; the morn- 
ing was clearer, and my people very urgent to go away; 
but I had ftill to fettle with Zor Woldo, who had been kept 
by his miftrefs, Fafil’s wife, notwithftanding his mafter’s or- 
. ders, till he had told her the whole circumftances of our ex- 
pedition, and made her laugh heartily at the oddity of our 
fentiments and cuftoms. This fhe repaid to him by plen- 
tiful horns of mead and bouza, as alfo large collops of raw 
‘meat, which made him a very eloquent hiftorian ; whether 
or no he was a faithful one, I cannot ep inihy judge 
_ Arter having fettled with him to his perfect fatisfaction, 
and cancelled entirely the memory of fome difagreeable 
things paffed, he configned us very folemnly to Ayto Aylo’s 
fervant, in prefence of Welled Amlac, and had taken his 
leave, when a very fine white cow was brought to the door 
of the tent from Fafil’s wife, who infifted, as a.friend of her 
hufband, that I would ftay that day for her fake; and I fhould 
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