=6 “TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
THERE is an officer named Kal Hatzé who ftands always” 
upon fteps at the fide of the lattice-window, where there is 
a hole covered in the infide with a curtain of green taffeta; 
behind this curtain the king fits, and through this hole he 
fends what he has to fay to the Board, who rife and receive 
the meflenger ftanding: he had not interfered tiltnow, when 
the officer faid, addrefling himfelf to Abba Salama, “ The 
king requires of you to anfwer directly why you perfuaded 
the Abuna to excommunicate him? the Abuna is a flave of 
the Turks, and has no king; you are born undera:monarchy, 
why did you, who are his inferior in office, take upon you ~ 
to advife him at all? or why, after having prefumed to ad- 
vife him, did you advife him wrong, and abufe his ignorance > 
in thefe matters?” This queftion, which was a home one, 
made him lofe all his temper; he curfed the Abuna, called 
him Mahometan, Pagan, Frank, and Infidel; and was go- 
ing on in this wild manner, when Tecla Haimanout*, the 
eldeft of the judges, got up, and addrefling himfelf to the Ras, 
It is no part of my duty to hear all this railing, he has not 
fo much as offered one fact material to his.exculpation. 
Tue king’s fecretary fent-up to the windowthe fubftance 
-of his defence, the criminal was carried at fome diftance 
to the other end of the room, and the judges. deliberated - 
whilft the king was reading. Very few words were faid 
among the reft; the Ras was all the time fpeaking to other’ 
people : after ‘he had ended this, he called upon the young- 
eft judge to give his opinion,.and he gave it, ‘He is guilty, _ 
and fhould die;’ the fame faid all the officers, and after 
them the judges, and the fame faid Kafmati Tesfos after 
| them. 
* The fame whofe foot was hurt by Strates’s-mule@in the campaign of Maitfha, 
¢. 
