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great willingnefs, the office of that night forme. I went 
to bed, and fell prefently into a profound fleep, from which 
I was awakened, a little before midnight, by a meflage 
from the ladies, my patients, in the Shekh’s houfe, fent by . 
the black flave that had fpoken in the Abyflinian language 
to me while I was attending her miftrefs. They advifed 
me to be upon my guard, for the Shekh was abfolutely 
refolved to take a fevere revenge upon us all: That after 
we had left him that evening, an exprefs arrived from the 
lower part of Atbara, giving him an account that Shekh. 
Ibrahim, a great man at Sennaar, and favourite of Adelan 
the prime minifter, while he was employed in gathering 
the taxes from the Arabs, had fought with the tribe called: 
Shukorea, fomewhere eaft of Sennaar; that he had been: 
completely beaten, and many of his people killed ;. as alfo,, 
that Shekh Ibrahim and his two fons were wounded ; that 
Shekh Fidele had immediately fent back word, that he had: 
then with him a furgeon and phyfician, meaning me, who. 
could, upon occafion, even bring a dead man to life, but that. _ 
I would never confent to come to-him unlefs I was forced 3. 
therefore, if he would difpatch a fufficient number of armed: 
men, to help him to furprife me in the night, he would con- 
duct the execution of that {cheme, and would fend me to him: 
in irons. He faid I was an infidel, a white man from Abyf-- 
finia, and had feveral ftout people with me expert in fires 
arms, (of which I had. a nuimber,) who would.be of great ufe: 
to him in fubduing the Arabs. They affured me; however, 
of their friendfhip, and begged me to confider what I had. 
to do in time, for many wild men would be poured in up-. 
on me, who would not fail to kill me if I refifted.. - 
4, f I RETURNED 
