I came out o f the tent to mount my mule fofr Tcherkin. t
n ow faw.Confu’s fervant, whofe name was'Welleta Yafous,.
p u llin g the Guinea-fowls and pigeons o u t’b f the pannier,
where my iervants had put them, and fcattering them upon
/the ground, and he was faying to thofe w ho interrupted h im,
“ Throw away this carrion ; you ihall have a better break-
faft and dinner, tôo, to-day and turning to me more than
ordinarily pleafed at feeing me drefled, and that I continued
to ufe the Abyffinian habit, he jumped upon his mule, and
appeared in great fpirits, and we all fet out at a briiker pace
than ufual, b y the alliftance o f the two freih mules.
We palled through the midft o f feveral fmall villages. A t
h a lf an hour paft eight we came to the mountain o f Tcher-
kin, which we. rounded on the weft, and then on the north,
keeping the mountain always on our right. At twenty minutés
paft ten I pitched m y tent in the market-place at
Tcherkin, which feemed a beautiful lawn laid out for plea-
fure, fliaded with fine old trees, o f an enormous height and
fize, and watered by a fmall but very limpid brook, runn
ing over beds o f pebbles as white as fnow.
CHAfc
C H A P . ir.
Reception at Tcherkin ly Ozoro EJiher, lie .— Hunting o f the Elephant,
Rhinocerosy and Buffalo*
THE impatient Welleta Yafous would only give m e rime
to fee my quadrant and otherinftruments fafely flowed,
but hurried me through a very narrow and crooked
path up the fide o f the mountain, at evety turn o f w hich
was placed a great rock or ftone, the ftation for mufquets
to enfilade the different ftages o f the road below, where it
was ftrait for any diftance. We at laft reached the outer
court, where we found the chamberlain Ammonios, whom
Welleta Yafous had fpoken o f as being ftill at Gonda r; but
this did not furprife me, as he told me at the tent that Ayto
Confu was arrived. I faw here a great many o f my old acquaintance
whom I had known at Ozoro Either s houfe at
Gondar,