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ing. I intreated her to continue her kind partiality to me the 
next day, and to judge for ever of the efteem I had for her by 
my then behaviour. She promifed to do fo with the utmoft 
complacency and fweetnefs, and departed. 
Soon after this, a fervant arrived from Ras Michael, witlr 
a magnificent faddle and bridle as a prefent to Engedan. 
This man told us thata meflenger had come from Waragna: 
Fafil, defiring a place might be marked out for him to en- 
camp, for he was to join the king early in the morning ; but. | 
nobody gave any credit to this, nor did he, as far as I ever 
heard, advance a foot nearer the camp. The meflenger 
commanded us all, moreover, to go to bed, which we imme- | 
diately complied with. I only went tothe king’s tent,-where 
the company was difperfing, and kiffed his hand, after which: 
I retired. In my way home to my tent, I faw a faggot lying 
in the way, when the ftory of the Guragué came prefently 
into my mind. fF ordered fome foldiers to feparate it with 
their lances ; but it had been brought for fuel, at leaft no 
Guragué was there. | 
{ was no fooner laid upon my bed, than I fell into a pro~ 
found fleep, which continued uninterrupted till five o’clock 
in the morning of the 2oth. I had fpared myfelf induftri- . 
ouily in laft night’s caroufal, for fear of contributing to a re-- 
tapfe into defpondency in the morning; but I found all with- _ 
in ferene and compofed as it fhould be, and entirely re- 
figned to what. was decreed, I was perfectly fatisfied, that 
the advancing or retarding the day of my death was not in: 
the power of the army of Begemder. I then vifited all the 
horfes and the black foldiers, and ordered two or. three of 
them, who were not perfectly recovered from their hurts,, 
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