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--counfel together, and came all forward to the river, where 
they paufed a moment as if counting our number, and 
then began to enter the ftream. Yafine now cried to them 
in Amharic, as [had done before in Tigré, defiring them, as 
they valued their lives, to come no nearer. They ftopt, a 
fign of no great refolution ; and, after fome altercation, it 
‘was agreed the Shum, and his fon with the gun, fhould 
pafs the river. 
‘Tue Shum complained violently that we had left Ad- 
dergey without his leave, and’now were attacking him in his 
own government upon the high-road. “A pretty fituation,” 
faid I, “was ours at Addergey, where the Shum left the 
king’s ftranger no other alternative but dying with hunger, 
or being ate by the hyena.” 
“THis is not your government,” fays Janni’s fervant; “ you 
know my mafter, Ayto Aylo, commands here.”—“ And who 
is attacking you on the road?” fays the Sire fervant. “ Is it 
like peaceable people, or banditti, to come mounted on | 
horfeback and armed as you are? Would not your mules .and 
your foot-fervants have been as proper? and would not you 
have been better employed, with the ‘king and Ras Michael, 
fighting the Galla, as you gave your promife, than here 
molefting paflengers on the road ?’—“ You lie,” fays the 
Shum, “ I never promifed to go with your Ras;” and on 
this he lifted up his whip to ftrike Welleta Michael’s fer- 
vant; but that fellow, though quiet enough, was not of 
the kind to be beaten. “ By G—d! Shum,” fays he, “ offer 
to flrike me again, and I will lay you dead among your 
horfe’s feet, and my mafter will fay I did well. Never call 
for your men ; you fhould have taken the red flip off your 
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