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travels now fo far advanced, to childifh vanity. I determi- 
ned therefore to abandon my gold chain, the honourable re- 
compence ofa day full of fatigue and danger. Whom to in- 
. truft it to was the next confideration; and, upon mature de- 
; liberation, I found it could be to Abtieee but Hagi Belal, bad 
as I had reafon to think he was. However, to put a check 
upon him, I fent for the Sid el Coom, in whofe prefence I 
repeated my accufation againit Belal ; I read the Seraff’s let- 
ter in my favour, and the feveral letters that Belal had writ- 
ten me whilft I was at Gondar, declaring his acceptance of 
the order to furnifh me with money when I fhould arrive at 
Re Sennaar; and I upbraided him in the ftrongeft terms with 
duplicity and breach of faith. 
_ Bor all that I could fay was very far fhort of the violent 
expoftulation from the Gindi that immediately followed. 
He gave Hagi Belal many not obfcure hints, “ that he looked 
upon this injury as done to himfelf, and would repay him ; 
that though he had done this to pleafe the king, the time 
might not be far off when that favour would be of very 
little ufe to him; on the contrary, might be a reafon for 
{tripping him of all he had in the world.” The force of 
thefe arguments feemed to ftrike Hagi Belal’s imagination 
very powerfully. He even offered to advance 50 fequins, 
and to fee if he could raife any more among his friends. 
j The Gindi (a rare inftance in that country) offered to lend 
him fifty. But the dye was now caft, the chain had been 
produced and feen, andit was become exceedingly danger- 
ous to carry fuch a quantity of gold in any fhape along 
with me. I therefore confented to fell it to Hagi Belal in 
prefence of the Gindi, and we immediately fet about the 
purchafe of neceflaries, with this provifo, that if Adelan, 
upon 
