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in my clothes.” He praifed me up to the fkies for this pre=_ 
‘caution, and the whole was executed in the manner propo-~- 
fed. My hair was cut round, curled, and perfumed, in the 
Amharic fafhion, and.I was thenceforward, in all outward. 
appearance, a perfect Abyflinian. 
My firft advice, when arrived at Kofcam, was, that’Ozoro: 
Efther, and her fon by Mariam Barea,.and a. fon by Ras Mi-. 
chael, {hould remove from the palace, and take up their. 
lodging in a houfe formerly belonging to her uncle Bafha. 
Fufebius, and give the part of the family that were yet well: 
a.chance of efcaping the difeafe. Her young fon by Ma- 
riam Barea, however, complaining, the Iteghé would not: 
fuffer him to remove, and the refolution was taken to abide- 
the iffue-all in the palace together. 
Berorz I entered upon my charge, I defired Petros (now 
recovered) Aylo, Abba Chriftophorus, a Greek prieft who ac- 
ted as phyfician before 1 came to Gondar, and Armaxikos 
prieft of Kofcam, and favourite of the Iteghé, to be all pre-. 
fent. I ftated to them the difagreeable tafk. now. impofed: 
upon me, 2 ftranger without acquaintance or protection, ha- 
ving the language but imperfectly, and. without power or: 
controul among.them. I profefled my intention of doing. 
my utmoft, although the dieafe was much more ferious.and. 
fatal in chis country than in mine, but I-infifted one condi-. 
tion fhould be granted me, which was, that‘no directions as: 
to regimen or management, even of the moft trifling kind,, 
as they might think, fhould be fuffered, without my permif-. 
fion and fuperintendence, otherwifeI wafhed my hands of the 
confequence, which I told before them would be fatal. They- 
allaflented to this, and Armaxikos declared thofe excommu-- 
nicated. 
im. 
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