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Nile? Are you angry with me, Yagoube, or are you afraid of 
Woodage Afahel? Were you in earneft, prince, in what you 
-now fay, replied I, you fuppofe two things, both greater re- 
proaches than that of being overtaken with wine. Affure 
yourfelf I am, and always fhall be, your moft affectionate and 
moft faithful fervant; and that I fhall think it an honour 
to follow you in Maitfha, or elfewhere, even as a common 
horfeman, though, inflead of one, there were in it ten thou- 
fand Woodage Afahels. O ho! fays the king, then you are 
all friends; and I muft tell you one thing, Georgis is more 
drunk with the thoughts of his command to-day than any 
foldier in my camp will be to-night with bouza. And this, 
indeed, feemed to be the cafe, for he was.elfe a prince ra- 
ther referved and fparing of words, efpecially before his 
brother. 
TELL me, Yagoube, continues the king, and tell me truly— 
at that very inftant came in a meffenger from Ras Michael, 
who, going round the chair without faluting, {poke to the 
king, upon which the room was-cleared; but I after learn- 
ed, that news were received from Begemder, that Powuflen 
and his troops were ready tomarch, but that two of Gutho’s 
nephews had rebelled, whom it had taken fome time to 
fubdue; that another meflenger was left behind, but had 
fallen fick at Aringo, who, however, would come forward | 
as foon as poflible with his mafter’s meflage, and would 
be probably at the camp that night. He brought alfo as 
undoubted intelligence, that Fafil,upon hearing Ras Mi- 
chael’s march, was preparing to repafs the Nile into the 
country of the Galla. This occafioned very great doubts, 
becaufe difpatches had arrived from Nanna Georgis’s fon, 
the day before at Tedda, which declared that Fafil had de- 
camped 
