THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. wok 
the road to Azazo was open to him, he fhould march thro’ 
Dembea, as if going to Fafil, then turn on the right behind 
the hills of Kofcam, and make the beft of: his way to Ras 
el Feel, in which government he fhould maintain the ftric- 
teft difcipline, and be: particularly careful of the intrigues 
of Abd el Jeleel, the former governor, whofe application I 
fhould defeat if-I had-any intereft, or if the king remain- 
ed, both. which I thought very improbable. I:annexed, 
moreover, this condition, that on his part he fhould be ac- 
tive and unwearied in procuring information concerning - 
the propereft way: of my attempting to reach Sennaar ; [ en 
joined him alfo to -be very circumftantial in all. the advices | 
‘which he fent to meat Gondar; that they fhould be writ- 
ten in Arabic, and fent directly to me by my black fervant » 
Soliman, who was with him, and told him that! myfelf fhould 
join him as foon as poffible.. Yafine, with tears in his eyes, 
protefted againft leaving me in the dangerous fituation of 
that night ; he faid we fhould be all cut to pieces as foon as 
-we were in the plain, and that there was not a man of the 
troops under him who-would not rather die with me, than 
- abandon me to be murdered by the hands of thefe faithlefs | 
Chriftian dogs, whe never were to be bound by oath or pro- 
mife. He faid, it. would be incomparably fafer, as. they 
were all under my command,.that.I fhould put myfelf at 
their head, and continue my march to Ras el Feel, where, 
aif I was once -arrived, Ayto Confu’s troops, being behind - 
me at Tcherkin, (that is, between me and Gondar), I. 
might, at.my own leifure, folicit a fafe conduct to Sen-.. 
naar... 
' Iconress this propofal at firft {truck me as extremely fear’ 
fible ; but reflecting on my foiemn promife to the king, not = 
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