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ordered him instantly to take away both the sheep and the 
bread, declaring that I would not accept of a single article from 
his master, until a proper apology should have been made for this 
impertinence. 
We did not, however, remain long unprovided, for shortly 
afterwards, a great profusion of viands was sent us by two 
Greeks, resident in the town, one of whom, a very old man, 
named Sydee Paulus, was father-in-law to Mr. Pearce. The 
other, named Apostoli, was a man of considerable wealth and 
consequence, who had chiefly resided at Adowa for the last forty 
years, though, during the time of my former visit, he had been 
absent on a journey to Constantinople, it being a practice with 
the Greeks trading in Abyssinia to go over occasionally to that 
place, for the purpose of settling their commercial concerns. In 
the course of the same day, these two Greeks paid me a visit, and 
I have seldom been acquainted with more venerable or respectable 
looking men. The elder was exceedingly infirm, and appeared 
to be nearly blind, so that it was with some difficulty that he 
could be brought up, on a mule, into the room in which we were 
sitting. On being seated, he expressed great anxiety to examine 
my features, and repeatedly enquired whether I was any relation 
of Yagoube (Mr. Bruce.) He afterwards conversed with me 
for some time respecting that traveller, and in almost every 
particular confirmed the account I have already quoted upon the 
authority of Dofter Esther, He related in addition, that the Em^- 
peror, TeclaHaimanout, never paid much attention to Mr. Bruce, 
till after his shooting through a table with a candle," (a fact 
which I had never before heard mentioned in the country,) when 
