36 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
The Naybe had now no longer anaval force to fupport him, 
and the fear of Turkifh conqueft had.ceafed in Tigré. The 
Naybe could be reduced within any bounds that the gover- 
nor of Tigré might pleafe to prefcribe him ; and the Bahar- 
nagafh was a fervant maintained to watch over him, and 
ftarve him into obedience, by. intercepting his provifions 
whenever the governor of Tigré commanded him. 
Tuis nobleman paid me a vifit in my tent, and was the 
firft Abyflinian I had feen on horfeback ; he had feven 
attendant horfemen with him, and about a dozen of others 
on foot, all of a beggarly appearance, and very ill-armed 
and equipped. He was.a little man, of an olive complex- 
ion, or rather darker; his head was fhaved ,clofe, with a 
cowl, or covering, upon it; he hada pair of fhort troufers ; $ 
his feet and legs were el the ufual coarfe girdle was 
wrapt feveral times about ae in which he ftuck his knife; 
and the ordinary web of cotton cloth, neither new nor ae 
was thrown about him. His parts feemed to be much upon 
the level with his appearance. He afked me, if I had ever feen 
horfes before? I faid, Very feldom. He then defcribed their 
qualities in fuch a manner as would never have given 
me any idea of the animal if I had feen it feldom. He ex- 
cufed himfelf for not having fent us provifions, becaufe he 
had been upon an expedition againtt fome rebellious villa- 
i Bes, and was then only ante returned. 
-To judge by his prefent appearance, he was no very re- 
fpectable perfonage ; but in this I was miftaken, as I after-. 
wards found. I gave him a prefent in proportion to the 
firft idea, with which he feemed very well content, till he 
obferved a number of fire-arms tied up to the pillar in the 
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