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of the unfortunate Woofheka, with whom he was well ac- 
quainted, {winging upon a tree, and drying in the wind. 
He was fo terrified, and ftruck with fuch horror, at the fight, 
that he was in a kind of hyfteric fit, cried, ftarted, laughed 
hideoufly, and feemed as if he had in part loft his fenfes. 
I was fatisfied by the ftate I faw him in, though he had 
left Ibaba three days, that, as the firft fight of Woofheka’s 
ftuffed {kin muft have been immediately before he went to 
the Ras, he could not have had any diftinct or particular 
converfation with him on my account; and it turned out 
after, that he had not fpoken one word upon the fubject 
from fear, but had gone to the tent of Negadé Ras Maho- 
met, who carried him to Kefla Yafous ; that they, too, fee- 
ing the fright he was in, and knowing the caufe, had gone 
without him to the Ras, and told him of my arrival, and of 
the behaviour of Abba Salama, and my fear thereupon, 
and that I was then in the houfe of Hagi Saleh, in the 
Moorifh town. The Ras’s anfwer was, “ Abba Salama is an 
afs, and they that fear him are worfe. DoI command in 
Gondar only when I flay there? My dog is of more confe- 
quence in Gondar than Abba Salama.” And then, after 
paufing a little, he faid, “ Let Yagoube ftay where he is in 
the Moors town; Saleh will let no priefts trouble him 
there.” Negadé Ras Mahomet laughed, and faid,“ We 
will anfwer for that;” and Petros fet out immediately up- 
on his return, haunted night and day with the ghoft of his 
friend Wootheka, but without: having feen Ras Michael. 
I rHoucHT, when we went at night to Ayto Aylo, and he 
had told the ftory diftinGly, that Aylo and he were equally a- 
fraid, for he had not, or pretended he had. not, till then 
heard 
