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and placed Amha Yafous befide him: it was eafy to fee his 
mind was otherwife occupied, and as eafy to perceive by his 
look, that he gave me credit for my behaviour. When they. 
were all feated, “ Well, fays he, in great good humour, 
what now, what is the matter? what can I do for you, Ya- 
goube? are the women in your country as idle and fool- 
ifh as thefe? has Ozoro Efther chofen a wife for you” 
fhe fhall give you your dinner: I will give her a por- 
tion ; and as you are a horfeman, the king, with Am- 
ha Yafous’s leave, faid he bowing, fhall give you the com- 
mand of the Shoa horfe; I have feen them; the men I think 
are almoft as white as yourfelf.”. Amha Yafous bowels Z 
in return, and faid, “Sir, if the king beftows them fo wo: 
thily, I promife to bring another thoufand as good as thefe 
to join them after the rains, before next Epiphany.”-—* And 
I, fays Ozoro Efther, for my part, I have long hada wife for 
him, but this is not the prefent bufinefs, we know your time 
is precious, Guangoul is without, and defires an audience 
of you.”—Poh ! fays the Ras, Guangoul is gone to Gufho, 
at Minziro, and there is like to be a pretty ftory: here are 
accounts come from Tigré, that he has committed great 
barbarities in his journey, laid wafte fome villages, killed 
the people, for not furnifhing him with provifions; here in 
Beleflen he alfo burnt a church and a village belonging to 
the Iteghé, and killed many poor people; I do not know what. © 
he means; I hope they will keep him where he is, and not 
fend him home again through Tigré. 
A communicaTion of this kind, very uncommon from 
the Ras, occafioned a ferious appearance in the whole com- 
pany; but he had no fooner done with fpeaking, than in 
comes Doho upon his cow: neither man nor woman that 
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