CHELICUT. 539 
I was the more inclined by the loss of a young man (Balogani) who 
accompanied me, when a dysentery, which had attacked him in 
Arabia Felix, put an end to his life at Gondar. A considerable 
disturbance was apprehended from burying him in a church- 
yard ; Abba Salama used his utmost endeavours to raise the 
populace and take him out of his grave ; but some exertions of 
the Ras quieted both Abba Salama and the tumult/' These 
events, told with such apparently minute and circumstantial fide- 
lity, are by the evidence of Mr. Bruce's own papers completely 
disproved ; for it appears, that Signor Balugani did not die at 
the period stated ; but that he lived to accompany Mr. Bruce up 
to the sources of the Nile, and was alive on the 14th of February, 
1771. 
The proofs of this are as follows : first, that a regular journal 
of transactions, in the Italian language, kept by Signor Balugani, 
was found among Mr. Bruce's papers, copious extracts from 
which are given in the last edition ;* secondly, that a letter in Ita- 
lian, in Sig. Balugani's handwriting, was found among Mr. Bruce's 
papers, written by him after their return to Gondar, addressed to 
an Italian nobleman ;t and thirdly, that there is an entry in the 
weather-journal, in Sig. Balugani's hand-writing, so late as Febru- 
ary 14; 1771 ;t whence Mr. Murray, editor of the last edition of 
Mr. Bruce's work, infers, that he died a few days after wards.'' § 
This very extraordinary anachronism respecting Signor Balu- 
gani's death, might, possibly, be thought to proceed from 
inattention or forgetfulness," as observed by Mr. Murray, (page 
* Vide Vol. V. p. 438. f Vide Vol. I. p, ceciii. 
t Vide Vol. VI. p. 5 1 . § Vide Vol. Vll. p. 50. 
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