ADOWA. 
103 
In the course of the day I received a message from Ozoro 
Tishai, requesting me again to visit her in the evening. As soon as 
it was dark I proceeded to her house. She received me with the 
same kind attention as on the evening before. Besides a plentiful 
supply of maize, which she was very urgent in pressing us to drink, 
she had prepared a supper, of which, for my own part, I was too 
unwell to partake. Pearce and Andrew, my servants, however, 
did it ample justice. The lady was this evening exceedingly curi- 
ous, and asked many questions concerning our Sovereign, the 
nobleman who had sent me, our houses, churches, kc ; but all this 
was done with great politeness ; and there was evidently a very 
striking distinction between the manners of this princess, and those 
of the generality of the women whom I had seen in Abyssinia. She 
told me that she had heard of Bruce, but had never seen him ; that 
he was a great favourite both of Ozoro Esther and the Iteghe. She 
added, that she felt the same friendship for me that they did for 
him. On my taking leave, she presented me with a piece of cloth 
of the finest Adowa manufacture, and begged that I would not let 
any person wear it but myself. She was very reluctant to break 
up the party ; and I was obliged at last to bring our visit to a 
termination, by making our interpreter, who had but a weak head, 
drink an additional quantity of maize, which soon incapacitated 
him for his office. 
" September 21. — I left Adowa in the morning not without re- 
gret, as I considered its inhabitants to be much more civilized than 
those of any other part of Abyssinia that I have visited. We as- 
cended the hill to the east, and continued in a route somewhat to 
the south of that by which we came ; so that we did not pass within 
