fe #### TRAVELS TO WICoOVvERY 
I rnen took the red colours from the fervant behind me, 
and going to the carpet fpread before the king, laid them 
at his feet, faying, “So may all your majefty’s enemies fall, 
as this arch rebel (the bearer of this) has fallen to-day ;” a 
great murmur was immediately raifed upon feeing thefe 
colours, and the king cried out with the utmoft impatience, — 
“ Has he fallen into your hands, Yagoube? who was he, © 
where did you meet him, or where did you flay him?” “Sir, | 
faid I, it was not my fortune to meet him to-day, nor did 
I flay him. Iam no king-killer; it is a fin, I thank God, 
from which my anceftors are all free; yet, had Providence 
thrown in my way a king like this, I believe I might have 
overcome my fcruples. He was killed, as I fuppofe, by a fhot 
of Guebra Matcal, on the flank of our line; a foldier picked up 
the colours on the field, and brought them to me in hopes 
of reward, while you was engaged with the troops of Begem- 
der, near the bank; but the merit of his death is with Gue- 
bra Mafcal. I do him this juftice, the rather becaufe he is 
the only man in your majefty’s army who bears me ill-will, 
or has been -my conftant enemy, for what reafon I know 
not; but God forbid, that on this,.or any perfonal account, 
I fhould not bear witnefs to the truth: this day, my for- 
tune has been to be near him during the-whole of it, and I 
{fay it from certain infpection, that to the bravery and ac- 
tivity of Guebra Mafcal every man in your left wing owes 
his life or liberty.”-—“ He is a fhame and difgrace to his 
family, fays the king’s fecretary, who was ftanding by him, 
if atter this he can be your enemy.’—* It muft bea miftake, 
fays the King’s prieft (Kiis Hatzeé), for this fhould atone for 
it, though Yagoube had flain his brother.” 
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