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chael the archangel; he faw him juft before he furprifed 
the mountain Haramat, but neither at Gondar, nor fince he 
paffed the Tacazzé, and this makes him forrowful. The 
{pirit has been afraid to catch cold, faid I, by wetting his 
feet in that cold river. I doubt fo,anfwered Confu ; but the 
liar of a monk, who my mother fuppofes never eats nor 
drinks, told him he was to fee him at Serbraxos. 
Ar this time we heard the noife of horfes, and could dif- 
cern (as we-thought) three men that pafled the bridge of 
Mogetch brifkly before us. As they feemed to avoid us, fix or 
eight of Confu’s men purfued them at full gallop, but loft 
them in the darknefs. They, however, were found to be 
foldiers of Kafmati Sanuda, who hearing Woodage Afahel 
had been engaged with Ayto Confu, had come out with the 
unworthy purpofe of collecting fome filthy trophies, by 
mangling the dead or wounded, though thefe muft have 
been their own companions, the foldiers of Ayto Confu, who 
had been flain; for the whole of Woodage Afahel’s men 
had already undergone what Strates emphatically called 
the operation, by the knives of Confu’s foldiers. We now 
arrived at Kofcam without any adventure, and Confu was 
laid to repofe, after taking a little food: in obedience to the 
orders of Ozoro Efther, I lay down by him in the fame apart- 
ment. 
Earty next morning I was fent for by a fervant of Ozoro 
Efther, to attend Welleta Selaflé, who I was told was at the 
point of death. Irepaired immediately to the houfe of Ras 
Michael, where fhe then was, but found her without pofli- 
bility of recovery, having already loft her fpeech. She ex- 
pired a few minutes afterwards, apparently in violent ago- 
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