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CHAP. VIII. 



Reception at Gondar-~Triumphal Entry of the King— The Authors fir/I 



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'Ewere much furprifed at arriving on the Angrab, 

 that no perfon had come to us from Petros, Janni's 

 brother. We found afterwards, indeed, that he had taken 

 fright upon fome menacing words from the priefts, at hear- 

 ing a *rank was on his way to Gondar, and that he had,, 

 foon after, fet out for Ibaba, where the Ras was, to receive 

 his directions concerning us. This was the moll difagreeable 

 accident could have happened to me. I had not afmgle perfon - 

 to whom I could addrefs myfelf for any thing. My letters 

 were for the king and Ras Michael, and could be of no ufe, 

 as both were abfent; and though I had others for Petros and 

 the Greeks, they, too, were out of town. 



Many. 



