218 ARKEEKO. 
I may here take occasion to mention a circumstance I have 
before omitted. During our short stay at Arkeeko, we received 
a visit from two respectable looking Greeks, returning from 
Abyssinia to their native country. One of them proved to be the 
brother of Abba Marcorius, an elderly man, who had, in the 
course of the preceding year, been commissioned by the Patriarch 
of Alexandria to fill the office of Abuna, or High Priest, of the 
Church of Abyssinia. Unfortunately for the country, he had 
scarcely reached his destination, when he was carried off* by an 
epidemical disorder. His death occasioned great regret through- 
out Abyssinia, and his followers were at this time proceeding to 
Egypt, in the hope of persuading the Patriarch to appoint ano- 
ther in his stead. I have not subsequently heard of their success 
in this undertaking, I was also informed that an Abyssinian 
Ozoro, of some rank, was travelling in company with these 
Greeks, on her way to J erusalem, and I have since had reason to 
believe that she arrived there in safety, where she intends to reside 
during the remainder of her life. 
