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Updated: May 17, 2025
About this time, he heard of Nero's death, and returned to Egypt, where Vespasian was endeavoring to establish his authority. While in Egypt, he explored the supposed sources of the Nile, and learned all the lore of the Ethiopean necromancers, who could do any thing, even to making a black man white; thus greatly excelling the skill of after ages.
He gathered his small band, to whom the Lord said, "Fear not," and, setting his troops in order as well as he could, he attacked the impious ones. Killing them swiftly, like brute beasts, he scattered them, like a hurricane driving dust. A second time he sent his 9000 knights forward, supported by 20,000 Ethiopean common foot-soldiers.
But it was too late with the Ethiopean; for as the word 'buglahs, issued the second time from his lips, he was struck upon the head with a club and knocked senseless. 'Here, said The Lifter, 'take this, handing the bag of booty to Murfrey. In an instant the band of desperadoes were making their flight through the pines; but not before several bullets had been sent whizzing among them.
Without listening to my repeated refusals, Granson begged me to call him henceforth Sidi-Mahmoud; had his room spread with Persian rugs, ottomans piled up in every direction, the walls cushioned to lean against, and perfumes scattered about; three or four dusky musicians placed themselves in a convenient recess with taraboucks, rebeks and guzlas an Ethiopean, naked to the waist, served us the precious drug on a red lacquered waiter.
And may the all-bountiful Creator shower on your Majesty, and the Royal Family, every blessing that this world can afford, and every fulness of joy which divine revelation has promised us in the next. I am your Majesty's most dutiful and devoted servant to command, Gustavus Vassa, The Oppressed Ethiopean. No. 53, Baldwin's Gardens.
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