tinued' our^oyrney, and at a quarter paft two arrived at Ke*
mon a.
O n the 19th o f Noyember, at fe-ven in the morning, w e
left Ketnoha, and' go in g conftanfly without Hopping by
Chergue and Azazo, I &nt my fervants and baggage on tfp
Abba Samuel at Gondar, where they arrived at one o.’cioek
afternoon, and finjlhcd our long-projected expedition, o r
journey, to the fountains, o f the Nile, haying, in our 1er
turn home, made as it were the chord o f the arc h o f o u r
former journey,, or about ninety-three miles, with which-
w e found' our points, as fettled by pbfervation,. did very-
nearly agree.
Tw o things chiefly occupièd m y mind, and prevented me*
from accompanying my fervants and baggage into Gondar.
The firft was my defirc o f inftantly knowing the ftatc of.
©z.oro Efther’s health the feeond was, to avoid Fafil, till I.
knew a little more about Ras Michael.and the king; Tak
in g one fervant along w ith me, I left my people at Azazo,.
and turning to the left, up a very craggy, fleep mountain, I
made the utmoft diligence I could till ! arrived at the gate
o f Kofcam, near two o ’clock, without having met any one -
from Ealil, who was encamped oppofite to-Gondar, on the :
Kahha, on the fide o f the hill, fo that I had p.afled obliquely
behind him. He had, however, féen or heard o f the arrival:
o f my fervants at Gondar,.and had fçnt for me to wait upon
him in his camp ; and, when he was informed I had !
gone forward to Kofcam, it . was faid he had uttered fome
words.of difcontent..
I WENT
T w e n t ftraight to thelteghe’s apartment, but was not adi
mitted, as flie was at her devotions. In crofling one o f the-
courts, however, I met a flave o f Ozoro Efther, who, in-
ftead o f anfwering the queftion I put to her, gave a loud
fhriek, and went to inform her miftrefs. I found that prin-
cefs greatly recovered- as her anxiety about Fafd had ceafed.
She had admitted him to an audience, and he had communicated
to her the engagement he was under to her h u f- ’
band, as alfo the conduit he intended to purfue in order
to keep Guiho and Rowufien from taking any effectual
meafures which might fruftrate, or at leaft delay, the reiteration
o f the k in g and .arrival o f Ras Michael.
CHAP,