THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 37 
{aid had fent to him to defire that I might not be allowed 
to proceed to the head of the Nile, and that from no other 
reafon but a hatred to me as a Frank. We bowed to each 
other as two not very great friends, and he immediately 
began a very dry, ill natured, admonitory difcourfe, ad- 
dreffed, for the greateft part, to Ozoro Efther, explaining to 
her the mifchief of fuffering Franks to remain at liberty in 
the country and meddle in affairs. Jinterrupted him by 
a laugh, and by faying, If it is me, father, you mean by the 
word Frank, I have, without your advice, gone where I in- 
tended, and returned in fafety ; and as for your country, I 
will give you a very handfome prefent to put me fafely 
out of it, in any direction you pleafe, to-morrow—the foon- 
er the better. 
Ar this inftant Ayto Confu came into his mother’s 
apartment, caught the laft words which I had faid, and afked 
of me, in a very angry tone of voice, Who is he that wifhes 
you out of the country ?—“ I do, fincerely and heartily, faid 
J, for one; but what you laft heard was in confequence of a 
friendly piece of advice that Abba Salama here has been 
giving me.”—“ Father, father, fays Confu, turning to him 
very fternly, do you not think the meafure of your good 
deeds is yet near full? Do you not fee this place, Kafmatz 
Efhté’s houfe, furrounded by the troops of my father Mi- 
chael, and do you ftill think yourfelf in fafety, when you 
“have fo lately excommunicated both the King and Ras? 
Look you, fays he, turning to his mother, what dogs the 
people of this country are; that Pagan there, who calls 
himfelf a Chriftian, did charitably recommend it to Fafil to 
rob or murder Yagoube, a ftranger offending nobody, when 
he got him among his Galla in Damot: this did not fuc-_ 
ceed, 
