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been looked upon as equal to a renunciation of Chrifti- 
anity. 
By Janni’s fervant; who had accompanied us from. 
Adowa, his kind.and friendly mafter had wrote to Ayto 
Aylo, of whom 1 have already fpoken. He was the con- 
ftant patron of the Greeks,, and had*been fo alfo of all 
the Catholics who had ventured into this country, and been 
forced after to leave it.. Though no man profefled greater ve- 
neration for:the priefthood,.no one privately detefted more 
thofe of his own country than he did; and he always pre- 
tended that, if a proper way of going to Jerufalem could be 
found, he would. leave his large eitates, and. the rank he 
had in Abyfiinia, and, with the little money he could mu- 
fter, live the remaining part of his days among the monks, 
of whom he had now accounted himfelf.one, in. the convent 
of the holy fepulchre.. This-perhaps was, great part of  it,. 
imagination; but, as he had talked .himfelf into'a belief 
that he was to end his days either at Jerufalem, which was 
a pretence, or at Rome, which was his-inclination, he will. 
ingly took the charge of white people of all communions 
_ who had hitherto been unhappy enough to flray into Abyf 
finia.. ' 
Ir was about feven o’clock at night, of ther sth, when Hagi 
Saleh was much alarmed by a number of armed men at his 
door; and his furprife- was ftill greater upon feeing Ayto Aylo, 
who, as far as I know, was never in the Moorifh town be- 
fore, defcend from. his mule, and--uncover his: head and. 
fhoulders, as if he had been approaching a perfon of the. 
firft diftin&tion. I had been reading the prophet Enoch, 
which Janni had procured me at Adowa; and Wemmer’s 
and 
