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king’s money that I had in my hands. When day-light is 
fairly come, for we do not know the changes.a night may 
produce in this country, take half a dozen of yoy fervants3. 
I will fend with you my fon and four of my fervants ; you 
will call at Alata, go down and fee the cataract, Bate do. 
not flay, return immediately, and, Ullah Kerim, God.is mercit- 
ful.” 
IrHankep my kind landlord, and let him go; but recolléc=- 
ting, called him again, and afked, “ What fhall I do withNet.. 
cho? how fhall! rejoin him? my company-is too fmall to pafs. 
Maitfha without him.”—* Sleep in peace, fays he, Iwill pro- 
vide for that. I tell you in confidence, the king’s money is: 
in my hands, and was not ready when the Ras:paffed ; my 
fon is but juft arrived with the laft of it this evening, tired 
to death; I fend the money by Netcho, and my fon too, , 
with forty ftout fellows well armed, who will die in your 
fervice, and not run away like thofe vagabond Chriftians, , 
in whom you mutt place no confidence if danger prefents . 
itfelf, but immediately throw. yourfelf- among the Maho- 
~ metans. Befides, there are about fifty-foldiers, moft of them: 
from Tigré, Michael’s men, that. have been loitering here: 
thefe two days. It was one of thefe that fired the gun juft: 
before you. came, which: alarmed Netcho; fo:that, when. 
you are come back in fafety from the. cataract, they fhall. 
be, by that time, allon their march to the paflage. My 
fon fhall mount. with you; I fear the Nile will:be too deep, | 
but when once you areat Tfoomwa, you may fet your mind 
ai reft, and bid defiance to Woodage Afahel, who knows 
his enemy always before he engages him, and at this time- 
will not venture to interrupt your march.” 
As. 
