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unpleasant intelligence, tbat two packets of letters which I had 
dispatched to Captain Weatlierhead from Chelicnt, by the differ- 
ent routes of Massowa and Amphila, had not reached their 
destination ; so that it became probable that the ship might not 
arrive on the coast by the time we should get down. 
On onr arrival at Adowa, we had taken up our residence in 
the house of the Has, by his particular desire, where we found a 
lady residing, named Ozoro Sehen, the wife of Billetana Welled 
Georgis, deputy governor of the province ; the chief himself 
being then absent. We had not long taken up our quarters, 
before an attendant was sent by the lady, with the present of a 
sheep and a quantity of bread. On my requesting him, accord- 
ing to the custom of the country, to get permission for one of his 
master's people to kill the sheep, he replied, that none of them 
would kill for Christians who eat with Musselmauns,'' a practice 
of which he at the same time asserted, Mr. Stuart had been 
guilty. I was extremely alarmed at this account, knowing how 
fatal an act of this kind would have proved to our interests^ and 
therefore sent immediately for Mr. Stuart and Hadjee Hamoodj, 
the person who had attended him during his journey, to enquire 
into the circumstances, when I was at once relieved from my 
apprehensions, by their jointly and positively declaring, that the 
whole story was absolutely without foundation ; Mr. Stuart hav- 
ing been previously cautioned by Captain Rudland on this 
subject, and having, in consequence, employed a Christian to 
cook for him from the moment of his entrance into the country. 
This point being clearly ascertained, I directed Mr. Pearce to 
speak in very severe terms to Welled Georgis's servant, and 
