it leaden bullet was found in Woodage Afahel’s body fired at
him by you,”— “ Sir, faid I, it is very feldom a man in fuch
á Cafe as this can have the power o f v indicating himfelf to
conviction, but that I now happily can do. I A ll the Greeks
in the k in g ’s army, their fons and families, all Mahometans,
who have been in Arabia, India, or Egypt, ufe leaden bullets.
The man who ihot Woodage Afahel is well known
to you. He is the k in g ’s old cook, Sebaftos, a man pall fe-
venty, who could not be able to k ill a iheep till fomebody
firft tied its legs. He himfelf informed the k in g o f what
he had done, and brought witnelTes in the ufual form,
claiming a reward for his aftion, which he obtained. It
was faid that. I, too, killed the man who carried the red
flag o f Theodorus at Serbraxos, though no leadeft bullet, I
believe, was found in him. A foldier picked up this flag
upon the field, and brought it to me. I paid him, indeed,
fo r his pains ; and, when I prefented the flag to the king,
told him what I had feen, that the bearer o f it had fallen
b y a ihot from Guebra Mafcal. I had not a gun in m.y
hand all that day at Serbraxos, nor all that other day when
Woodage Afahel Was flain. I faw him pafs within lefs
than ten yards where I was Handing behind the k in g, in
great health and fpirits, with two other attendants ; but,,
fo fa r from firing at him, I was very anxious in my own
mind that he ihould get as fafely out o f the camp as he had
gallantly, though imprudently, forced himfelf into it. It is
not a cuflom known in my country for officers to bé employed
to p ick out diftinguifhed men at fuch advantage, nor
would it be confidered there as much better than murderr
certainly no honour w ould accrue from it. But w hen means
are neceflary to keep officers o f the enemy at a proper diftance,.
tance, for con fe ren c e s that might otherwife follow-there
are common foldiers chofen for that purpofe, and for which
they are not the more efteemed. This, however,! wiJUonfefs
to-you, that when either the k in g ’s horftsmr mine'went
down to Deg-Ohha to water, and never but then, I fat upon
the rock above and did all. in my power to p ro le * them,
and-the men who w ere w ith them, and to terrify the enemy
who tame to moled them, b y fhew ihg the extenfive.range o f
our rifle guns ;-and thgt very day when Ayto-Tesfos arrived
fome o f his troops having driven o ff the mules, among
which were two o f mine, I did, I confefs, with my own
hand ffioot four o f them from the rock, and at laft obliged
I r T f r !, / eP ai .a g re a te r diila" c c 5 but as 'for Woodage
Afahel I difown having had arms in my'hand the day he
entered the camp, or having been abfent, till late in the
evening, from the k in g ’s perfon.”
Now, all this is very well, continued Guffio ; who killed
Theodorus, or the man at Serbraxos ; who killed Ayto Tes-
oss men is no objeft o f in quiry; Deg-Ohha was within
the line o f the k in g s camp, and they that wanted to deprive
him o f thts pofleffion, or the ufe of.it, did it at their peril.
I f you had ihot Ayto Tesfos himfelf, attempting to deprive
f ” the camp, no man in all Amhara would
have faid y o u did w ro n g ; h u t I am very much pleafed
with what you tell me o f Woodage Afahel. The ffiort yellow
man, who breakfafted with you, was one o f thofe two
who accompanied Woodage Afahel when he was ihot
k i l J b 7 d f minC; he br°Ught word thathe was
y o i ” 3 ’ and ^ kaden bullet fix’d k uPon
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