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‘as well as from his own confeffion, repented of his refolution 
as foon as we were gone, and had determined on foot to fol- 
low us, when he heard of this opportunity of Ozoro Efther’s 
fervant being fenton a meflage, and that princefs was fo 
well pleafed with his anxiety that fhe gave hima mule that 
he might not retard her fervant. 
‘Turs Greek had known Fafil intimately, both when he 
‘was a private man in Kafmati Efhté’s time, and afterwards, 
when he was governor of Damot, for he was a fervant in 
the palace when Joas was king, as all the Greeks were; had 
a company of fufileers, and one or two other {mall appoint- 
sments, all of which were taken from him, and from moft of 
the other Greeks, upon the death of the dwarf, who, I be- 
fore mentioned, was fhot on the fide of Ras Michael by an 
~ unknown hand upon his firft arrival at Gondar. He now 
lived upon the-charity of the queen-mother, and what he 
picked up. by his buffoonery among the great men at court. 
We found that in Shalaka Woldo we had got a man of more 
underftanding than our friend Strates, but much about his 
equal in mimicry and buffoonery. © | 
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