ceed. He then perfuaded Woodage Afahel to fend a party of
robbers from Samfeen to intercept him in Maitiha. Coque
Abou Barea himfelf told me it was at that infidel’s defire
that he fent Welleta Selaffe o f Guefgue with a party to
cut him off, who miffed him narrowly at Begwaffa; and
all fhis for what ? I fliall fwear they' fhould not liave found
ten ounces o f gold upon him, except Fafil’s prefent, and
tha t they dared not touch.”— “ But God, faid Ozoro Efther,
faw the integrity o f his heart, and that his hands were
clean ; and that is not the cafe with the men in this country.”—
“ And therefore, faid Confu, he made Fafil his friend
and prote&or. Woodage Afahel’s party fell in with an
officer o f Welleta Yafous, who cut them all to pieces
while robbing fome Agows.” Then rifing up from the
place where he was fitting at his mother’s feet, with a raif-
ed voice, and countenance fu ll 'of fury, turning tb Abba Salama,
he faid, “ And I, too, am now nobody; a b o y ! a child !
a. mockery to three fuch Pagan infidels as you, Fafil, and
AboU Barea, becaufeRas Michael is'awa y!”— Says the A'cab
Saat, with great compofure, or without any feeming anger,
“ You are excommunicated, C o n fu ; you are excommunicated
i f you fay T am Infidel or Pagan: I am a Chriftian
prieft.”— “ A prieft o f the devil, fays Confu, in a great paffion
-wine and women, gluttony, lying, and drunkennefs
thefe a r e your g o d s ! Away ! fays he, putting his hand to
his k n i f e : by Saint Michael I fwear, ten days fliall not pafs
before I teach both Coque Abou Barea and you your duty.
Come, Yagoube, come and fee my horfe s; when I have put
a good man upon each o f them we fhall together hunt
your enemies to Sennaar.” He fwang haftily out o f the
door, and I after him, and le ft Abba Salama dying with
fear, as Ozoro Efther told me afterwards, faying only to
3 her
ber, a§ he went out, Remember I did not excommunicate
him.
I l e f t Confu with his horfes and men ; and, though i f
was now late, I went to the camp to pay my compliments
to Fafil. . Having no arms, I was very much molefted both-;
in going and coming,under various pretences; I was afterwards
kept waiting about h a lf an hour in the camp without
feeing him ; he only fent me a meflage that he woulds
fee me on the morrow. However, we met feveral friends
we had feen at Bamba, and from them we learned at lengths
what we fliortly had heard from Ayto Confu, that Woodage
Afahel had fent a party to intercept and rob us ; and it was
that party which was called the five Agows, who had paffed
Fafil’s army the night after we left Kelti*. They told us-
that the Lamb faid they were Agows, not to alarm us, but
that he knew very w ell who they were, and what was their
errand ; and that, the night after he left us, he got upon
tiieir track by information from three country men whom*
they had robbed o f fome honey, furrounded them, and, in.
the morning, had attacked them weft o f G eeflqand, though;
inferior in number, had flain and wounded the whole party
as dexteroufly as he had promifed. to us at our laft interview.
.
I s e n t a fmall prefent to our friend’the Lamb, in tokern
o f gratitude to him, and delivered it-to three people, that I
might be fureone o f them would not fteal it, and took Fafil’s
guarantee to fee it delivered; but this was upon a fol-
Ibwing;
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