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lieve or difpute with you the vanity of having killed men ; many men were flain at that battle ; fomebody mud, and you may have been the perfon who flew them ; but do you think that I can believe that Fafil, fo deep in that account of blood, could rule the Agows in the manner he does, if he could not put a fervant of his in fafety among them 20 miles from his refidence ; do you think I can believe this ?" " Come, come, faid Aylo's fervant to Woldo, did you not hear that truth and good behaviour will get you every thing you afk? Sir, continues he, I fee this afFair vexes you, and what this foolifli man wants will neither make you richer nor poorer ; he has taken a great defire for that crimfon filk-fafh which you wear about your middle. I told him to flay till you went back to Gondar ; but he fays he is to go no far- ther than to the houfe of Shalaka Welled Amlac in Maitfha, and does not return to Gondar; I told him to ftay till you had put your mind at eafe, by feeing the fountains of the Nile, which you are fo anxious about. He faid, after that had happened, he was fure you would not give it him, for you feemed to think little of the cataract at Goutto, and of all the fine rivers and churches which he had fhewn you ; except the head of the Nile mail be finer than all thefe, when, in reality, it will be juft like another river, you will then be diilatisfied, and not give him the fafh,"
I thought there was fomething very natural in thefe fufpicions of Woldo ; befidcs, he faid he was certain that, if ever the falh came into the fight of Welled Amlac, by fome means or other he would get it into his hands. This ra- tional difcourfc had pacified me a little; the fafh was a hand- fome one ; but it m'uft have been fine indeed to have flood for a minute between me and the accomplishment of my
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