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while the fecretary faid, “ Yagoube, the king does you this . 
great honour, not as payment of paft fervices, but as a pledge 
that he will reward them if you will put it in his power.” 
Upon this I kiffed the ground, and we were both recon- 
ducted to the Ras, with our infignia; and, having kiffed the 
ground before him, and then his hands, we both had leave 
to retire. He feemed very bufy with people arrived from 
without ; he only lifted up his head, {miled, and faid, Well, 
are you friends now? We both bowed without anfwer, and 
left the tent. . 
Tus chain confifted of 184 links, each of them weighing 
3;,dwts of fine gold. It was with the utmoft reluctance 
that, being in want of every thing, I fold great part of this 
honourable diftinction at Sennaar in my return home; the 
remaining partis ftill in my poffeflion. It is hoped my 
fuccefiors will never have the fame excufe | had, for fur- 
ther diminifhing this honourable monument which I have 
left them. He 
Asout a few hours after this, a much more interefting 
fpectacle appeared before the whole camp. Ayto Tesfos, go- 
vernor of Samen under Joas, had never laid down his arms, 
nor paid any allegiance to the prefent king or his father, 
but had conftantly treated them as ufurpers, and the Ras 
as a rebel and parricide. He had continued in friendfhip 
with Fafil, but never would co-operate or join with him, 
not even when he was at Gondar as Ras. He lived in the 
inacceflible rock, {called the Jews Rock) one of the higheft 
of the mountains of Samen, where he maintained a large 
number of troops, with which he overawed the whole neigh- 
bouringcountry, andmade perpetual inroads intoTigré. Ene- 
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