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Tury all feemedito ‘have taken my caufe to heart more 
than I wifhed them,to do,.for fear it fhould be productive of 
fome new quarrel. For my own part, I never was fo dejett- 
ed in my life. The troublefome profpect before me pre- 
fented itfelf day and night.’ I more than twenty times re- 
folved to return by Tigre, to which I was more inclined by 
the lofs of a young man who accompanied me through Bar- 
bary, and affifted me in the drawings of architecture which 
I made for the king there, part of which he was ftill advan- 
cing here, when a dyfentery, which had attacked him in 
Arabia Felix, put.an end to his life* at Gondar. A confider- 
able difturbance was apprehended upon burying him ina 
church-yard. Abba. Salama ufed his utmoft endeavours to 
raife the populace and take him out of his grave; but fome 
exertions of the Ras quieted both Abba Salama and the tu- 
mults. lvis 
I sEGAN, however, to look upon every thing now as full 
of difficulty and’ danger; and, from this conftant fretting 
and defpondency, I found my health much impaired, and 
that I was upon the point of becoming ferioufly ill. There 
_was one thing that contributed in fome meafure to diflipate 
thefe melancholy thoughts, which was, that all Gondar was 
im one {cene of feftivity. Ozoro Ayabdar, daughter of the 
late Welled Hawaryat, by Ozoro Altafh, Ozoro Efther’s fifter, 
and the Iteghé’s youngeft daughter, confequently grand- 
daughter to Michael, was married to Powuflen, now gover- 
nor of Begemder. The king gave her large diftricts of land 
in that province, and Ras Michael a large portion of gold, 
View, os Hh muikets, 
* See Introduction, 
