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of excommunication. _He was exceedingly eloquent and bold, 
a great favourite of the Iteghé’s, till taken im to be a 
counfellor with Lubo and Brulhé. He had been very in- 
{trumental in the murder of Kafmati Efhteé, of which he 
vaunted, even in the palace of the queen his fifter. He was 
a man of a pleafing countenance, fhort, and of a very fair 
complexion ; indifferent, or rather averfe to wine, but a 
monftrous glutton, nice in what he had to eat, to a degree 
{carcely before known in Abyflinia; a mortal enemy to all 
white people, whom he claffed under the name of Franks, 
for which the Greeks, uniting their interefts at favourable 
times, had often very nearly overfet him. 
THE next morning, about ten o’clock, taking Hagi Saleh: 
and Yafine with me, and drefled in my Moorifh drefs, I. 
went to Ayto Aylo, and found him with feveral great plates 
of bread, melted butter, and honey, before him, of one of 
which he and I ate; the reft were given to the Moors, and. 
other people prefent. There was with him a prieft of Kof-. 
cam, and we-all fet out for that palace as foon as we had. 
ate breakfaft. The reft of the company were on mules. I 
had mounted my own favourite horfe. Aylo, before his. 
fright at Sennaar, was one of the firft horfemen in ‘Abyfli- 
nia ; he was fhort, of a good figure, and knew the advantage — 
of fuch make fora horfeman; he had therefore a curiofity: 
to fee a tall man ride; but he was an abfolute ftranger to. 
the great advantage of Moorifh furniture, bridles, fpurs, and. 
furrups, in the management of a violent, ftrong, high-met- 
tled horfe. It was with the utmoft fatisfaction, when we 
arrived in the plain called Aylo Meydan, that I fhewed him. 
the different paces of the horfe. He cried out with fear. 
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