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eight piafters, not the twentieth part.of what he would have 
exacted. One reafon of this feverity was, that, while I was 
in Mafuah, Janni had entertained this man at his own houfe; 
and, knowing the ufual vexations the caravans met with at 
Kella, and the long time they were detained there at confi- 
derable expence, had obtained a promife from the Shum, 
in confideration of favours done him, that he fhould let us 
pafs freely, and, not only fo, but fhould fhew us fome little 
civility. This promife, now broken, was one of the articles 
of delinquency for which he was punifhed. 
Couot, large needles, goats fkins, coarfe fciffars, razors, 
and fteels for ftriking fire, are the articles of barter at Kel- 
Ja. An ordinary goat’s {kin is worth a quart of wheat-flour, 
As we expected an order of deliverance, all was ready up- 
on its arrival. The Moors with their affes, grateful for the 
benefit received, began to blefs the moment they joined us ; 
hoping, in my confideration, upon our arrival at the 
cuftomhoufe of Adowa, they might meet with further fa- 
VOUr. ! 
Yasine, in the four days we had ftaid at Kella, had told 
me his whole hiftory. It feems he had been fettled in a 
province of Abyflinia, near to Sennaar, called Ras el Feel; 
had married Abd el Jilleel, the Shekh’s daughter ; but, grow- 
ing more popular than his father-in-law, he had been per- 
fecuted by him, and obliged to leave the country. He began 
now to form hopes, that, if I was well received,.as he faw, 
in all appearance, I was to be, he might, by my intereft, be 
appointed to his father-in-law’s place; efpecially if there 
was war, as every thing feemed to indicate. Abd el Jilleel 
was a coward, and incapable of making himfelf of perfonal 
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