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commendation of the young man, and his honourable aec- 
tion, adding, that the prefervation of kings was a gift of 
Providence particularly referved for the people of Amhara. 
He then ordered new cloaths to be brought and put upon 
Tecla Mariam, who fcrupled to take off his cowl; on which 
Gutho violently tore it from his, head, dafhed it on the floor, 
ftamped twice on it with his foot, and then threw it behind > 
the back of the fofa. At parting, Gufho ordered him five 
ounces of gold,a large prefent for one that loved money as 
Gutho did, commanding him ftridily to return to his duty 
and pr ofeffion, and orderin = me to carry him to the king, ; 
and fee him reinftated in his office in the palace. 
Iruen defired his permiffion to vifit the fick, and left © 
ipecacuanha and bark with Antonio, (his Greek fervant,) 
and directions how to adminifter them. One of his ne- 
phews, (Ayto Adereflon) the young man who had loftGufho’s 
horfe, had the fmall-pox, upon which I warned Gufho - 
ferioufly of the danger to which he expofed all his army 
if that difeafe broke out amongtft them, and advifed him to 
fend his nephew forthwith to the church of Mariam, under 
the care of the priefts, which he did accordingly. 
Tue tent being cleared, he afked me if I had feen Welleta 
Selaffé ; if I was with her when fhe died ; and who was faid — 
to have poifoned her, Ras Michael or herfelf, or if Ihad ever — 
heard that it was Ozoro Efther? I told him her friends 
had fent for me from the camp, but miffed me, not know- 
ing I was at Kofcam with Ayto Confu, who had been 
wounded; but that I could have been of little fervice to 
her if they had found me fooner: That fhe had fcarce 
any figns of life when I entered her room, and died foon | 
after: hat fhe confeffed fhe had taken arfenic herfelf, and 
named 
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