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foot fince five in the morning, and engaged all day, has 
not, I believe, ate or drank as yet; certainly he has not 
-wafhed himfelf, or changed his habit, but has been taking 
care of his wounded-men, and has prefented himfelf now 
as he came from the field, under the unjuft fufpicion I 
was doing him wrong. I then repeated what had hap- 
pened at the bank when the king was purfuing the troops ~ 
of Begemder. Now I underftand him, fays the king, but 
ftill he is wrong, and this is not the firft inftance I have 
feen, when there was no {uch miftake. At this time a mief- 
fenger came to call me from within. 
Tue king divined the reafon te fending, and faid, No, he 
fhall not go to Guebra Mafcal ; I will not fuffer this. Go, 
fays he to one of his fervants that ftood near him, defire — 
the Ras to call Guebra Mafcal, and afk him what this bru- 
tality means? I have feen two inftances of his mifbehavi- . 
our already, and wifh not to be provoked by a third. At _ 
this inftant came Kefla Yafous, with his left hand bound 
up, and a broad leaf like that of a plane upon his fore- 
head. After the ufual falutation, and a kind of joke of | 
the king’s on his being wounded, I afked him if he would 
retire and let me drefs his forehead? which he fhewing 
inclination to do, the king faid, Aye, go, and afk Guebra 
Mafcal why he quarrels with his beft friends, and prevents 
me from rewarding him as he otherwife would have ide= | 
ferved. I went out with Kefla Yafous, being very defi-. 
rous this affair fhould not go to the Ras, and we- found 
Guebra Mafcal in appearance in extreme: spingel’ and de- 
{pair. 
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