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CHAR XL. 



Continue our Journey — Fall in 'with a Party of Galla — Prove our 

 Friends — Pafs the Nile — Arrive at Goutto, and vifit thefrjl Cataracl. 



ON the fecond of November, at feven in the morning we 

 purfued. our journey in a direction fouthward, and 

 palled the church, of Bofkon Abbo; ever memorable to us as 

 being the ilation of Falil in May, .when he intended to cut 

 us off after our paffage of the Nile. This brought on a con- 

 versation with our guide Woldo, who had been prefent with 

 Fafil at his camp behind this church, and afterwards when 

 Michael offered him battle at Limjour, he was there attend- 

 ing his mailer. He faid, that the army of Welleta Yafous 

 was above 12,000 itrong; that they were intending to attack 

 the king at the ford, and had no doubt of doing it fuccefs- 

 fully, as they imagined the King and Ras Michael, with part 

 of both horle and foot, would pal's early, but the reft with dif- 

 ficulty and danger; it was at that inflant Welleta Yafous was 

 to fall upon thole that remained with Kefla Yafous, on the 

 other lide of the Nile, in that conluiion in which they necef- 



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