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durft go on fuch an errand, it is fome difturbance about 
Tchelga.” | 
I gasity perceived that the Moullah wanted me to con 
fefs, which I likewife faw the ufe of myfelf. “I fent, faid’ 
1, meffengers from Teawa two feveral times. The firft,. 
when Fidele pretended. Yafine was. to murder me in the 
defert; the fecond, when he faid hey had no camels; and _ 
I alfo mentioned the piaftres, and his intention: to murder’ 
me.” “ Ammonios, fays black Soliman, and Yafine, Nara, 
and Ras el Feel, all belong to Ayto-Confu, and were given 
to Yagoube by him, for his. maintenance all the time he 
was at Gondar. Ayto Conf and he are brothers; they 
were together in the camp, flept together in the fame houfe;: 
they are brothers and more than'brothers,. for they: fwore: 
to each other, when we paffed Tcherkin, upon the heart of 
the elephant *.. I fwear by our holy faith, that Confu will: 
be down here himfelf ; what does he care for a journey of- 
two days ?” : 
ALL now with one voice condemned. Fidele, who- had’ 
not a word to fay, only, that if he knew the perfon who: 
carried that meflage, he would cut off his head, if he was: 
his brother. “ But itis impoffible, fays the Shekh ;.fhould I 
not have known of the mefienger being abfent? impoffible ” 
‘Then turning to his fervant, faid, “Is Kutcho el Hybari 
here ? Ihave not feen him lately.”—* Sir, fays he, you know 
you fent Kutcho to Mendera long before the Hakim ar- 
rived.” 
* This is a very horrid oath, full of nonfenfe, and vows of friendfhip and fecrecy. 
