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and partake with me. He would ftand, all the time, witla 
a clean towel in his hand, though he had plenty of fer- 
vants ; and afterwards dined. with fome vifitors, who had 
come out of curiofity, to fee a man arrived from fo far. A- 
mong thefe was a number of priefts ; a part of the company 
which I liked leaft, but who did not fhew any hoftile ap- 
pearance. It was long before I cured my kind land- 
lord of thefe refpeCtful ebfervances, which troubled me 
very much; nor could he wholly ever get rid of them, his 
own kindnefs and. good heart, as well as the pointed and 
particular orders of the Greek patriarch, Mark, conflantly 
fuggefting the fame attention. 
In the afternoon, I had a vifit from the governor, a very’ 
graceful man, of about fixty years of age, tall and well fa- 
voured. He had juft then returned from an expedition to the | 
Tacazze, againft fome villages of Ayto Tesfos *, which he 
had deftroyed; flain 120 men, and driven off a number of 
cattle. He had with him about fixty mufquets, to which,.I 
underftcod, he had owed his advantage. Thefe villages were 
about Tubalague, juft as you afcend the farther bank of 
the Tacazzée. He faid he doubted much if we fhould be 
allowed to pafs through Woggora, unlefs fome favourable 
news came from Michael; for Tesfos of Samen, who kept 
his government after Joas’s death, and refufed to acknow- 
‘ledge Michael, or to fubmit to the king, in conjunction 
with the people of Woggora, acted now the part of robbers, 
plundering all forts of people, that carried either provifions, 
or: 
* A rebel governos of Samen, of which I fhall after have occafion to fpeak.. 
