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tieve or difpute with you the vanity of having killed men; 
many men were flain at that battle; fomebody muft, and 
you may have been the perfon who flew them; but do you 
think that I can believe that Fafil, fo deep in that account 
of blood, could rule the Agows in the manner .he does, if 
he could not put a fervant of his in fafety among them 20 
miles from his refidence ; do you think I can believe this?” 
“ Come, come, faid Aylo’s fervant to Woldo, did you not hear 
that truth and good behaviour-will get you every thing you 
afk? Sir, continues he, I fee this affair. vexes you, and what 
this foolifh man wants will neither make you richer nor 
poorer; he has taken a great defire for that crim{on filk-fath 
~ which you wear about your middle. I told him to ftay till 
you went back to Gondar; but he fays he is to gono far- — 
ther than to the houfe of Shdlaka Welled Amlac in Maittha, 
and does not return to Gondar; I told him to ftay till you 
had put your mind at eafe, by feeing the fountains of the 
‘Nile, which you are fo anxious about. . He faid, after that 
had happened, he was fure you would not give it him, for 
‘you feemed to think little of the cataract at Goutto, and.of 
all the fine rivers and churches which he had fhewn you; 
except the head of the Nile {hall be finer than all thefe, 
when, in reality, 1t will be juft like another river, you will 
then be ca aiali and not give him the fath.” 
“| Pandeteets diene was Seca gs. very natural in thefe 
fufpicions of Woldo ; befides, he faid he was certain that, if 
‘ever the fafh came into the fight of Welled Amlac, by fome 
means or other he would-get it into his hands, This ra- 
tional difcourfe had pacified me a little; the fafh was a hand- 
fome one; but it muft have been fine indeed to have flood 
for a minute between me and the accomplifhment of my 
abel 4F 2 withes, 
