court, nor judgment o f caufes civil or criminal. The palace
was quite deferted; even the k in g ’s flaves, o f both fexes,
(fearing to be carried o ff to Begemder and Amhara) had
hid themfelves among the monks, and in the houfes o f
private friends, fo that the k in g was left with very few attendants.
C H A P .
G H A P , X.
Rebel Army inve/ts Gondar— King's Troops deliver up their Arms— The
. Murderers o f Joas aJfaJJinated— GuJho made Ras—Ras Michael carried
away Prifoner by Powujfen— Iteghe's return to Kofcam— Fafd
arrives at Gondar— King acknowledged by all Parties-—Bad ConduS
of Gujho -—Obliged to fi\\ but is taken andput in Irons.
A B O U T eight o’clock in the morning o f the 29th o f
i k May, the day immediately following the night of-our
retreat, came Gulho’s Fit-Auraris, and marked out the camp
for his mailer between the Mahometan town and the church
o f Ledeta, on the very fpot where Michael had encamped
after his late return from Tigre ; Coque Abou Barea from
Ledeta to Kofcam ; Aylo and Ayabdar on the other fide o f
the Kahha, in a line; palling by Kedus Raphael, the Abuna’s
houfe at the foot o f the mountain, above Debra Berhan ;
Ayto Tesfos in the valley below^by the fide o f the Angrab ;
on the road from Woggora to Gondar, and all along the
Angrab,