4- 5 G TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



not imagine Ras Michael could have paffed that night, but 

 that to-morrow he would certainly be attacked by Fafil, as 

 his companion, who had croffed with Ras Michael, was to go 

 directly to rafil and inform him of the fituation of the King, 

 the Ras, and the army. 



Kefla Yasous fent two of his principal officers, with a 

 «liftinc"r. detail of this whole affair, to the king. It being now 

 dark, they fwam the river on horfeback, with much more 

 difficuUy and danger than we had done, and they found 

 Ras Michael and the king in council, to whom the)- told 

 their meffage with every circumftance, adding, that Kefla 

 Yafous, as the only way to preferve the army, quite fpent 

 with fatigue, and encumbered with i'uch a quantity of bag- 

 gage, had (truck his tent, and would, by that time, be on 

 his march for the ford of Dclakus, which he thould crofs, 

 and, after leaving a party to guard the baggage and, lick, he 

 ihould with the frefheft of his men join the army. The fpy 

 that had paffed with Michael and the king was now fought 

 for, but he had loft no time, and was gone off to Fafil at Bof- 

 kon Abbo. Kefla Yafous, having fcen all the baggage on their 

 way before him, did, as his lail act, perhaps not ftrictly con- 

 fident with juftice, hang the poor unfortunate informer, the 

 Agow, upon one of the trees at the ford, that Welleta Yafous, 

 when he paffed in the morning, might fee how certainly 

 his fecrei was discovered, and that co.nfequcntly he was on 

 his guard. 



On the 28th he croffed Amlac Ohha with fome degree of 

 difficulty, and was obliged to abandon fcveral baggage- 

 mules. He advanced after this with as great diligence as 

 poffible to Delakus, and found the ford, though deep, much 

 % better 



