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_and defired to fpeak with me alone, taking Aylo’s fervant 
along with him. “Now, faid I  wexyakbaleniy, 1 know by your 
face you are going to tell mea lie. I do fwear to you fo- 
lemnly, you never, by that means, will obtain any thing 
from me, no not fo much as a good word; truth and good 
behaviour will get you every thing ; what appears a great 
matter in your fight is not perhaps of fuch value in mine; 
but nothing except truth and good behaviour will anfwerto 
you; now | know for a certainty you are no more fick than 
IT am.”—* Sir, faid he, with a very confident look, you are 
right 5 I did counterfeit ; I neither have been, nor am I at 
prefent any way out of order; but I thought it beft to tell 
you fo, not to be obliged to difcover another reafon that has’ 
much more weight with me why I cannot go to Geefh, and 
much lefs fhew myfelf at the fources of the Nile, which I 
confefs are not much beyond it, thowgh I declare to you 
there is flill a 7// between you and thofe fources.”—* And: 
pray, faid I calmly, what is this mighty reafon? have-you: 
had a dream, or a vifion in that trance you fell into when: 
you lagged behind below the church of St Michael Sacala?”’ 
“No, fays he, it is neither trance, nor dream, nor devil ei- 
ther; I with it was no worfe; but you know as well:as i 
that my mafter Fafil defeated the Agows at the battle of 
Banja. I was there with my matter, and killed feveral men,,. 
among whom fome were of the Agows of this village Geeth;. 
and you know the ufage of this country, when a man, im 
thefe circumftances, falls into their hands, his blood muit 
pay for their blood. 
[burst out into a violent fit of laughter which very much 
d:fconcerted him. “ There, faid I, did not I fay to you it was 
(a lie that you was goin g to tell me? do not think. I difbe- 
lieve; 
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