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CHAP. VIII. 



Second Journey to difcover the Source of the Nile—Favourable 'Turn of 

 the Kings Affairs in Tigr'c—Wefall in with Fafiis.Army at Barnba. 



THOUGH the queen fhewed very great diflike to my at- 

 tempting this journey at fuch a time, yet £he did not 

 pofitively command the contrary; I was prepared, therefore, 

 to leave Gondar the 27th of October 1770, and thought to 

 get a few miles clear of the town, and then make a long 

 ftretch the next day. I had received my quadrant, time- 

 keeper, and telefcopes from the ifland of Mitraha, where I 

 had placed them after the affair of Guebra Mehedin, and 1 

 had now put them in the very bell order. 



But, about twelve o'clock, I was told a meflage from Ras 

 Michael had arrived with great news from Tigre. i went 

 immediately to Kofcam as fall as I could gallop, and found 

 there Guebra Chriftos, a man ufed to bring the jars of bou- 



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