attended him, who had all fared better than he, among1
their, friends in town, though they did- not own it. The
fécond day began in the fame ■ ftile; and lafted till noon,
without any appearance o f provifions, After the furren-
dry o f the arms, however, came great plenty, both from the»
tpwn and the-camp, and fo continued ever- after ; ¡but he. ate-
very fparingly, though he had generally a very good appetite^
and ordered, the refidue tp be given to his fervants, or the
poor about the gates o f the palace,, many o f whom,
he faid, muft flarve by. the long flay of. fo large an army..
He feemed to he. totally, forgotten.. About three o’clock o f
the fécond- day came his fecretary. from Guiho, ftaid about
a n hour, and returned immediately ; but what had paffed
I ,did not,hear,at leaft at that.time.. There was no alteration,
in his looks or behaviour. He went early to bed, and had not.
yet changed the cloaths in which he came from the camp..
T h e next day the unfôrtunate troops o f Tigré, loaded!
with curies and opprobrious-language, , pelted with ftones-
and dirt, and a ,few way-laid.and flain for private inju rie s,,
were conduced, up the hilL above; Debra Berhan, on the
road through Woggora.to Tigré, by-a guard o f horfe from
Guiho’s camp, who protefted them with great-humanity,
as far as they, were able ; ;but it was out of, the power o f
any force but that.of. an army to proteél them from the;
enraged populace, .overwhom they had tyrannifed fo many,
years. Arrived at the river Angrab, in the rear o f Powuf-.
fen’s army, they were, configned to him, and he delivered
them.to Ayto Tesfos, who was to efcort them acrofs the Tacazzé,
M an y -o f the moh, however, continued to purfue
them even farther.; but thefe were all to a man difarmed,
and ftript naked, on their return to Gondar, by Tesfos and,
Powuffen’s foldiers,, who juftly judged, that in the like
flotation.
fituation they would themfelves haVe met with no-better
treatment.
W h i l e every rank o f people was irrtent upon this ffiec-
tacle, a body, o f Galla, belonging to Maitflia, ftole privately
into the town, and plundered feveral houfes : they came
next into the-king’s palace, and into the prefence-chamber,
where he-was fitting-alone in. an alcove, whilft, juft by his
fide, but out o f fight, and without the alcove, I and two off
his-fervants were fitting on the floor. , This room, in the
time o f Yafous and the Iteghe; (the days o f luxury and
fplendour o f the Abyflinian court), had been magnificently
hu ng with mirrors, brought at great expence from V en ice ;.
b yw a y o f Arabia and the Red Sea; thefe were very neatly fixed
in copper-gilt frames by fome Greek filligrane-workers
from Cairo 3 but the mirrors were now moftly broken by
various accidents, efpecially when the. palace was fet on fire,.
in Joas’s time;, upon Michael’s coming from the campaign
o f Begemder;. Thefe favages, though they certainly faw
the kin g at the other end o f the room, attached-themfelves
to the glafs neareft the door,. which was a large oblong
one, and after they had made many grimaces, and a variety
o f antics before it,.one o f them-ftruck it juft in-the middle
w ith -th e butt-end of; his lance, and broke it to Olivers,
which fell tinkling on the floor. Some o f thefe pieces
they took up; but in .th e end they were moftly reduced to<
ppwder.with the repeated ftrokes of . their lanees. There
were, three glaffes in the alcove where the k in g fat, as al-
fo one- in the wings on each fide w ith o u t the alcove ¡ under
the k in g ’s -right hand w e three w e r e fitting, and the-.
Galla were engaged with a mirror near the door, at the o -
ther .end o f the.room, .on the left fide, fo that there was,
buti