2u4 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
One morning Aylo, in prefence of the queen, fpeaking 
to Ozoro Efther of the file of the Ras’s etter to me, fhe 
-confeffed her own anxiety was the caufe, but added, “ You 
have often upbraided me with being, what you call, an un- 
chriftian enemy, in the advices you fuppofe I frequently 
‘give Michael; but now, if Iam not as good a friend to Ya- 
goube, who.has faved my children, as I am a fteady enemy 
to the Galla, who murdered my hufband, fay then Efther is 
not a Chriftian, and I forgive you.” Many converfations of 
this kind paffed between her and me, during the illnefs of 
Ayto Confu. I removed my bed to the outer door of Confu’s 
chamber, to be ready whenever he fhould call, but his mo- 
ther’s anxiety kept her awake in his room all night, and 
propriety did not permit me to go to bed. From this fre- 
quent communication began a friendfhip between Ozore 
‘Efther and me, which ever after fubfifted without any inter- 
ruption. 
Our patients, being all hkely to do well, were removed 
+o a large houfe of Kafmati Efhté, which ftood ftill within 
the boundaries of Kofcam, while the rooms underwent an- 
other luftration and fumigation, after which they all re- 
turned ; and I got, as my fee,a prefent of the neat and con- 
venient houfe formerly belonging to Bafha Eufebius, which 
had a feparate entry, without going through the palace. 
Stull I thought it better to obey Ras Michael’s orders to the 
letter, and not ftir out of Kofcam, not even to Hagi Saleh’s 
or Ayto Aylo’s, though both of them frequently endeavour- 
ed to perfuade me that the order had no fuch ftri& mean- 
ing. But my folitude was in no way difagreeable tome. I 
had a great deal to do. I mounted my inftruments, my 
thermometer and barometcr, tclefcopes and . quadrant. 
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