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‘YT that called drink! Selaffé adroitly continued, “He knows 
you are curious in horns, and fent you this, defiring me firft 
to get it filled at the Iteghé’s with good red wine, which 
1 have done; and now, Hallo! Drink! Enghfhman!” He 
then added in a whifper, when the fervant had fhut the 
door, “I'll tell it you all after fupper, when the houfe is quiet, 
for I fleep here all night, and go to Tigré to-morrow morn-- 
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Tue time being come, he informed me Ras Michael and’ 
Fafil had made peace; Welleta Michael, the Ras’s nephewy, 
taken: by Fafil at the battle of Limjour; had’ been the mediz 
ator; thar the king and Michael, by their wife behaviour;. 
had reconciled. Tigré as ene man, and. that the Ras had: 
iffued a proclamation, remitting to the province of Tigré 
their whole taxes from the day they paffed:the Tacazzé till 
that time next year, in confideration of their fidelity and’ 
fervices. and this had been folemnly proclaimed:‘in feveral. 
places by beat of drum. The Ras declared, at the fame 
time, that he would, out of his own private fortune, with-- 
out other afliftance, bear the expence of the campaign tilk 
he feated the king on his throne in Gondar.. A.kind of 
madnefs, he faid, had feized: all ranks of people to follow 
their fovereign to the capital; that the mountain Haramat 
ftill held out; but that all the principal friends, both of Za. 
Menfus. andNetcho, had. been up with the governors of that. 
fortrefs offering terms of peace and forgivennefs, and de- 
firing they would not be-an obftacle inthe king’s way, and: 
a hinderance to. his return, but that all terms had been. as 
yet refufed ; however,.fays he, you know the Ras as well as 
fhe will play them a‘ trick. fome of thefe days, winking 
with his eye, and.then crying out, Drink !. i 
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