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patriarch of Alexandria to the Abyssinian church. This treatise, 
on my return to England, was translated by the Reverend Mr. 
Murray, the late editor of Mr. Bruce's works, for the benefit of 
the British and Foreign Bible Society, which is at present 
engaged in printing a portion of the Scriptures in Ethiopic. The 
writing, as might be expected, is extremely dilfuse, and in some 
parts obscure, but contains, on the whole, a fair abstract of the 
Abyssinians' tenets, and a considerable portion of curious matter 
respecting the absurd disputes which have latterly taken place in 
their church. The other manuscript contains an account of his 
last campaign against the GalJa, written by a scribe at the court, 
which is filled more with adulatory compliments than facts. Parts 
of this were occasionally read in the Ras's presence, and it seemed 
to afford him no small portion of gratification ; the Abyssinians, 
indeed, generally possessing an anxious desire of having their 
names handed down to the admiration of succeeding ages." 
On the 25th of April, which, according to the Abyssinian 
reckoning, was the last day of Lent, the Ras very early in the 
morning informed us, that it was his intention to remove his 
residence to Antalo, and expressed a desire that we should ac- 
company him to that place, with which request we complied. 
Accordingly, at day-light, he sent three of his best horses for our 
use, one of which, named Shummut, had for many years been his 
favourite, and the two others had lately been sent as presents from 
Liban, the chief of the Galla. The Ras himself had already set 
out, but on our arriving at a plain near the village of Afguol, we 
found him waiting to receive us, surrounded by about two hun- 
dred slaves and attendants, and about forty chiefs on horseback. 
