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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: of those men who had undoubtedly sworn to cut me off.
I began, upon this, to distrust the sincerity of the viceroy's
professions, and resolved, upon the receipt of another letter from
the viceroy, to return directly. In this letter, having excused
himself for not waiting for my arrival, he desired me in terms very
strong and pressing to come forward, and stay for him at his own
house, assuring me that he had given such orders for my
entertainment as should prevent my being tired with living there. I
imagined at first that he had left some servants to provide for my
reception, but being advertised at the same time that there was no
longer any doubt of the certainty of his revolt, that the Galles
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