' red, I foon fell found afleep, having firil taken fome drops*
o f a ilrong fpirituQUs tinfture o f the: bark, which I 'h a d i
| prepared at Gondar;. refolving, i f I found any remifliqn, as .
I then did, to take feveral good dozes o f the bark in powder
on the morrow, beginning at day-break, which I accordingly
did w ith its ufual fuccefs. -
On the 20th o f April, a little after the dawn- o f' d iy , the-
Shekh, in great anxiety, came to the place where I was •
lying, upon a canned buffaloe’s hide, on the. ground. His.
forrow was foon turned into jo y when he found me q u ite -
I recovered from my illnefs. I had taken the bark, and;
exprefled a defire o f eating a hearty b reakfaftof rice, which*
was immediately prepared for m e ..
T he Shekh o f Beyla was an implicit believer in medicine.
Seeing me take fome drops o f the tinriure before:
coffee, he infifted upon pledging me, and 1 believe would ,’
have w illin g ly emptied thé whole bottle* After having ;
fuffered great agony w ith his own complaint, he had !
paffed fome fmall ftones, and was greatly better, as he faid,
for the foap-pills., I put him in a w a y to prepare thefe,
as alfo his lime-water. It was imppflible to have done any-
favour for him equal to this, as His agony had been fo •
great. He told me our Moullah was arrived from Teawa,
and had left Sh'ekh Fidelé ftill repining at our departure,,
without leaving him the-piaftres, As for the eclipfe, he
faid he did not care a ftraw, nor for what they did or
knew at Mecca, for he had’no interéft there. I underftood
our friend Mahomet, Shekh o f Beyla,. had been under great-,
uneafinefs at the eclipfe, when it advanced in the immer- -
fion, and became' total. . Some time before this, as he faid,’,
there.-
there had been another, but not fo great, on the day thé
Daveina burnt Imgededema, with above thirty other-villages,
and difperfed or deflroyed about two thoufaiid inhabitants
o f Atbara..
It was now thé time to give the Shekh a prefent, and'
Ehad prepared one for him, fuch as he very well deferved ; «
but no intreaty, nor any means I could ufe, could prevail
upon him to accept o f the merCft trifle. On the contrary,
he folemnly fwore, ' that i f I importuned h im* further he
would get upon his horfe and go into the- country. All
that he defired, and that too as a favour; was, that, when I
had refted at Sennaar, he might come and confult me fu r ther
as to his complaints, fo r which he promifed he ihould ■
Bring a reeompenee with him. We then fettled to give his-
prefent to the Moullah, with which he was very well plea*
fed, and which he took without any o f thofe difficulties
the Shekh o f Beyla had ftarted when it was offered to
K im ..
All being - friends now, and ’ contented, the day was
given to repofe and joy. The k in g ’s fervant came and told
me, by w a y o f fecret, that we could not do lefis to pleafe the
Shekh than flay with him à week at Beyla, and I believe
it would not have difpleafed him ; but after fo much coming
and ' going,- fo much occafion for talk relative to me,
I :was refoived to follow Hàgi Belal’s advice, and prefs on to
Sennaarbefore affairs there were in- a defperate fituation,.or
fome fcheme o f mifehief ihould be contrived by Eidele.
One thing Shekh Adrian’s fervant told us, that he had, b y
his matter’s orders, taken from Fidele the prefent I had
given him, though he had already made i t up. into a gown,