226 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER: 
I rink, it was about the rath that thefe. letters were te: 
be all read. J expected at the ordinary hour, about five in: 
the afternoon, to be fent for, and Had rode out to Kofcam:- 
with Ayto Heikel, the queen’s chamberlain, to. fee the child, , 
who was pretty well recovered of all its complaints, but very. 
weak. In the interim I was fent for.to the Ras, with orders . 
to difpatch aman with the king’s prefent, to wait for me at. 
the palace, whither I was to go after leaving:Michael. It was 
anfwered, That.I was at Kofcam, and the errand I had gone 
on mentioned ;:which difappointment, and. the caufe, did 
no way prejudice me, with the Ras.. Five in the evening- 
was fixed:as the hour, and-notice fent to Kofeam.. I came~ 
a little before the time, and met Ayto Aylo at the door. He 
fqueezed me by the hand, and faid, “ Refufe nothing, it can. 
be all altered afterwards ; but itis very neeeflary, on account - 
of the priefts and the populace, you have.a.place of fome.aus. 
thority, otherwife you will be robbed and murdered the firft 
time you go half a mile from home : ‘fifty people have told | 
me you. have chefts filled with gold, and that you can make. 
gold, or.bring what quantity you pleafe from the Indies ; 
and the reafon-of all this is, becaufe you refufed the queen. 
and: Ozero Efther’s a of gold.at Kofcam, and. which you. 
muft never do again,” 
We went:in and faw-the old man fitting upon a fofa 3; 
his white hair was drefled in many fhort curls...He ap-. 
peared to be thoughtful, but not difpleafed; his face was. 
lean, his eyes quick and vivid, but feemed to. be-a little fore 
from expofure to the weather. , He feemed to be about fix ; 
feet high, though his lamenefs made it difficult to guefs . 
with accuracy. His air was perfectly free from conftraint,., 
what the French call degageé.. In. face and: perfon he was: 
‘liker- 
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