THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, 209 
IT RETURNED to the Moors town, leaving Aylo with the 
queen. In the afternoon I heard Welleta Selaffe was dead ; 
and at night died her father, Welled Hawaryat. The con- 
tagion from Mafuah and Adowa had fpread itfelf all over 
Gondar. Ozoro Ayabdar, daughter of Ozoro Altafh, was 
now fick, and a violent fever had fallen upon Kofcam. The 
next morning Aylo came to me and told me, the faith in 
the faint who did not eat or drink for twenty years was 
perfectly abandoned fince Welled Hawaryat’s death: That 
it was the defire of the queen, and Ozoro Efther, that I fhould 
tranfport myfelf to Kofcam to the Iteghé’s palace, where 
all their children and grandchildren, by the different men 
the queen’s daughters had married, were under her care. 
I told him, “I had fome difficulty to obey them, from the 
pofitive orders I had received from Petros to ftay in the 
Moors town with Hagi Saleh till the Ras fhould arrive; that 
Kofcam was full of priefts, and Abba Salama there every 
day; notwithftanding which, if Petros and he fo advifed me, 
I would certainly go to do any poflible fervice to the Iteghé, 
or Ozoro Either,” 
* ¥e defired half an hour’s abfence before he gave me an 
_anfwer, but did not return till about three hours after- 
wards, and, without alighting, cried. out at fome diftance, 
“ Aya,come, youmuft goimmediately.” “Ttold him, that new 
and clean clothes in the Gondar fafhion had been procured 
for me by Petros, and that I wifhed they might be fent to 
his houfe, where I would put them on, and.then go to Kof- 
cam, with a certainty that I carried no infection with me, 
for I had attended a number of Moorifh children, while at 
Hagi Saleh’s houfe, moft of whom happily went on doing 
-well, but that there was no doubt there would be infection 
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