506 LONDON. 
ship's pre-eminent talents and extensive knowledge of Eastern 
afFairs added a peculiar value to the opinion which he had offici- 
ally to pronounce upon the subject. I shall here take my leave 
of the reader with an anxious hope that I may, in this instance, 
meet with the same liberal indulgence which has hitherto attended 
my efforts in the cause of Abyssinia, and, referring once again to 
that country, shall conclude with the words of the learned and 
disinterested Ludolf, " Excitet D. O. M. Principum nostrorum 
animos, ut pervetustea huic Christiame nationi opem ferant, Chris- 
tianismo in tam remotis mundi partibus proferendo utilem, sibique 
omni sevo gloriosam futuram/' 
CAJVEls after a MARCH- 
