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to be on his journey the one way, as I was the other. T had ordered my fervants and baggage to fet out on the road to Dingleber before me, fending Ay to Aylo's fervant along with them, leaving me only my horfe and a common Abyflinian fervant to follow them : all had been ready fince early in the morning, and they had fet out accordingly with very great alacrity.
It was about one o'clock, or after it, when I was admitted toFafil: he received me with great complacency, and would have had me fit down on the fame cufhion with himfelf, which I declined. " Friend Yagoube, fays he, I am heartily forry that you did not meet me at Bure before I fet out; there I could have received you as I ought, but I have been tor- mented with a multitude of barbarous people, who have turned my head, and whom I am now about to difmifs. I go to Gondar in peace, and to keep peace there, for the king on this fide the Tacazze has no other friend than me ; ■Powuffen and Gufho are both traitors, and fo Ras Michael knows them to be. I have nothing to return you for the prefent you have given me, for I did not expect, to meet a man like you here in the fields ; but you will quickly be back ; we fhall meet on better terms at Gondar ; the head of the Nile is near at hand ; a horfeman, exprefs, will arrive there in a day. 1 have given you a good man, well known in this country to be my fervant ; he will go to Geefh with you, and return you to a friend of Ayto Aylo's and mine, Shalaka Welled Amlac ; he has the dangerous part of the country wholly in his hands, and will carry you fafc to Gondar ; my wife is at prefent in his houfe : fear nothing, I ihall anfwer for your 1'afcty : When will you fet out? to- morrow r"
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