This man was now immediately called for. He went
■by the nickname o f Goid, or the Giant, from his {mail fize
and debility o f body. “ Is this your man, fays Guiho, who
fhot Woodage Afahel on the hill?” “ O, by no means, fays
Goul - he was an old man With a long grey beard, and a
white cloth round his head. This man I know well. I faw
him with Fafil. This is Yagoube, th e k in g ’s frien d ; he
would not do fuch a thing.” “ No, certainly he wou ld nor-
fays Guiho, and fo mind that you tell Woodage Afahel s
friends.” U p o n this he withdrew. And-now, fays Guiho-,
talk no-more upon this affair, I w ill take the reft upon my-
fe lf There is a fervant o f Metical Aga’s now In the camp;
lent over by defire o f your: friends and countrymen * at Jidda
to know i f you are alive and well. He has alfo a mefr
fage to the king, and perhaps I may fend him. to the camp
to-morrow, but more probably- defer it till we meet at Gon-
dar M e a n time, remember my injunftiori to you, to keep,
clofe b y the perfon o f the king, and then no accident
can befal you in the confuiion that w ilf foon happen. I
thanked him for his friendly advice, which I promifed to
follow. I then aiked for Ayto Confu and Engedan, as alfo
for Metical Aga’s fervant, but he anfwer.ed, I. could not them
fee them.
He had now in his hand feme filk paper, in which they
generally wrap their ingots o f gold, and he was preparing
to flip this, into m y hand at parting, in the fame manner
we do the fee o f a phyfician in Europe, “ You forget-,
faid I, what you mentioned in the morning, that I am no
» C a la is Thomas Price o f the Lyon o f Bombay.
¿aft-away, no Greek nor Armenian fervant, but perhaps o f
equal rank to yourfelves : i f I wanted money, Metical-Aga’s
fervant would procure it for me upon demand. It is your
wife and two daughters who are i l l ; and when you llialt
hereafter be great, and governing every thing at Gondar,
I w ill by them put you in mind o f any piece o f friendihip
I may ftand in need o f at your hand ; and you fliall grant
it.”— “ You are a good prophet, Yagoube, fays he-; and fo
I {hall; but remember my advice ; I know you are a friend
o f Ozoro Either, but flie cannot protedt you ; Ozoro Altafti*
m a y : the beft o f all is to keep clofe to the king, to defend
yourfelf i f any body molefts you on- your way to Gondur,,
and leave the reft to me.
An officer was now appointed to conduit me" atrois the:
plain, and feveral fervants laden with fifli and fruit. About
a hundred yards flor^ the tent,: a man muffled lip met me;
whom 1 found to be a fervant o f E-ngedan, “ Your army
w ill difband, fays he to me, in a low tone o f voice ;. keep
b y the king, or Aylo my mailer’s brother, and he will
bring you over here.” Having left him, we continued a-
erofs the plain, and faw feveral fmall parties o f horfe parroting,
but they came not near us. My conductor faid they
were Galla, waiting for feme opportunity to do mifchief.
He told me that Ozoro Welleta Ifraeiy and his fon Aylo,
had joined^heir army that day with 10,000 men from Go'-
jairi, to no purpofe at all, continued he, but that o f eating
up the country. But your friend the Iteghe, could not
fee Ras Michael fall without giving him- a ihove, though
flie^
* Her daughter was married to Powufllm