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in the camp.” “ I fancy, faid I, endeavouring to give alight 
turn to the converfation, they have not often wherewithal 
to get drunk in your camp.” “ Not this laft year, fays he, 
laughing, there were no houfes in the country.” “ But let 
me only merit, faid I, Welleta Selaflé’s friendfhip, by ma- 
king him the meffenger of good news to Guebra Mafcal, 
that he is at liberty, and you have forgiven him.” “ At li- 
berty ! fays he, bid: is he?” “In your houfe, faid I, fome- 
where, inirons.” “ That is Efther’s intelligence, continued 
the Ras ; thefe women tell you all their fecrets, but when I 
remember your behaviour to them I do not wonder at it, 
and that confideration lkewife obliges me to grant. what 
you afk. Go, Welleta Selaffé, and free that dog from his col- 
lar, and dire&t him to go to Welleta Michael, who will 
give him his orders to levy the meery in Woggora; let him: 
not fee my face till he returns. 
Ozoro Estuer gave us breakfaft, to which feveral of the 
Greeks came. After whichI went to Kofcam, where I heard 
a thoufand curfes upon Guebra Mafcal. The whole affair 
was now made up, and the king was acquainted with the 
iffue of it. I ftood in my place, where he fhewed me very 
great marks of favour ; he was grave, however, and forrow= 
ful, as if mortified with what had happened. The king order- 
ed me to ftay and dine at the palace, and he would fend me 
my dinner. I there faw the fons of Kafmati Efhté, Aylo, 
and Engedan, and two Welleta Selaffés ;, one the fon of Te- 
cla Mariam, the other the fon of a great nobleman in Go- 
iam, all young men, with whom I lived ever after in perfect 
familiarity and friendfhip. The two laft were my brethren. 
Baalomaa), or gentlemen of the king’s bed-chamber.. 
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