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tated ’a little, and then added very fupercilioufly, “Aye, ayes. 
we were, as [ think, always friends.”——“ You have had, fays 
Powulflen, a devilifh many hungry bellies fince we left Gon 
dar.”— You will excufe me, Sir, replied I, as to that ar-. 
tucle; Tat no time cver found any difference whether you 
was in Gondar or not.”——“ There, fays Gufho, by St Demes 
trius, there is a.truth for you, and you don’t often hear that ~ 
in Begemder.. May I fuffer death if ever you gave a jar of 
honey to any white man.in your life.”——“ But I, fays Powuf- 
fen, fitting upright on the floor, and leaving: off play, will: 
give you, Yagoube, a prefent better than Gufho’s paultry 
jars of honey... Ihave brought with me, addrefling himfelf 
to me, your double-barrelled gun, and your fword, which. 
I-took from that fon of a wh-——-e Guebra Mehedin: by St Mi- 
chael, continued Powuffen, if I had got hold of that infidel: 
I would have hanged him upon the firft tree. in the way for- 
daring to fay.that he was.one of my army when he com-. 
mitted that unmanly robbery upon your people.’ The Ite-- 
ghé, your friend, would yefterday have given me ten loads ; 
of wheat for your gun, for fhe believes Iam to carry it back - 
to Begemder again, and do not mean ‘to give it you, but: 
come to my tent to-morrow and you fhall have it.” [I very: 
well underftood his meaning, and that he wanted a prefent; , 
but was happy. to recover my gun at any rate.. 
I AROSE to get away, as what had’ pafled did not: pléafe: 
me; for before the king’s retreat to Tigré, Gufho had fat in; 
my prefence uncovered to the waift, in token of humility; , 
and many a cow, many a fheep, and: jar of honey he-had. 
fent me; but my:importance was now gone with the king 3: 
Lwas igen ! and they were refolved, I faw, to make me fenfi- 
kle of it, Itold the queen, on my return, what had pafled: 
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