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(Aylo's brother) had been prefent, when Aylo's fervant fet out with us from Bamba under charge of this Woldo.
To Woldo, too, I had been very attentive : I had anticipated what I faw were his willies, by fmall prefents and more con- fiderable promifes. I had told him plainly at Bamba, in pre- sence of FauTs Fk-Auraris and Ayto Welleta Michael, (Ras Michael's nephew) that I would reward him in their fight according to his behaviour ; that I fcarcely thanked him for his being barely faithful, for fo he was accountable to his mailer, whofe honour was pledged for my fafety ; but that ■I expected he would not attempt to impofe upon me, nor fuffer others to do fo, nor terrify me unneceffarily upon the road, nor obftruct me in my purfuits, be fulky, or refufe to anfwer the inquires that Lmade about the countries through which we were to pafs. All this was promifed, repromifed, and repeatedly fworn to, and the Fit-Auraris had allured me that he knew certainly this man would pleafe me, and that Fafil w r as upon honour when he had chofen him to attend me, although he had then ufe for him in other bufmefs ; and it is not lefs true, that, during the whole of our jour- ney hitherto, he had behaved perfectly to the letter of his promife, and I had omitted no opportunity to gratify him by Several anticipations of mine.
I had upon me a large beautiful red-filk fafh, which went fix or feven times round, in which 1 carried my crook- ed knife and two pillols; he had often admired the beauty •of it, inquired where it was made, and what it might have coil. 1 had anfwered often negligently and at random, and I had thought no more of it, as his inquiries had gone no •further. The time which he had fixed upon was not yet ■i come,
