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wer him, he again faid, “ The firft time it was vifible it 
brought the fmall-pox, which has killed above 1000 people 
in Mafuah and Arkeeko. It is known you converfed with it 
every night at Loheia; it has now followed you again to finith 
the few that remain, and then you are to carry it into Abyf- 
finia, What have you to do with the comet ?” 
Wirnour giving me leave to fpeak, lis brother Emir 
Achmet then faid, That he was informed I was an engineer 
going to Michael, governorof Tigré, to teach the Abyflinians 
to make cannon and.gunpowder; that the firft attack was 
to be againft Mafuah. Five or fix others fpoke much in the 
fame ftrain; and the Naybe concluded by faying, That he 
would fend me in chains to Conftantinople, unlefs I went to 
Hamazen, with his brother Emir Achmet, to the hot-wells 
there, and that this was the refolution of all the janizaries ; 
for I had.concealed:my being a phyfician. 
TY uap not yet opened my mouth. I then afked, If all 
thefe were ‘janizaries; and where was their commanding 
‘officer? A well-looking, elderly man anfwered, “I am 
Sardar of ‘the janizaries.”—“ If you are Sardar, then,” faid 
I, “this firman orders you to protect me. The Naybe is 2 
man of this country, no member of the Cttoman. empire.” 
Upon my firft producing my firman to him, ‘he threw it 
afide like wafte-paper. The greateft Vizir'in the Turkith 
dominions would have received it ftanding, bowed his head 
to the ground, then kiffed it, and put it upon his forehead. 
A general murmur of approbation followed, and I continu- 
_ ed-—“ Now I muft tell you my refoltition is, never to go to 
Hamazen, or elfewhere, with Emir Achmet. Both-he and 
the Naybe have fhewed themfelves my enemies ; and, [ be- 
Won, IL, D lieve, 
