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CHAP. II. 



FafiPs infidious Behaviour' — Arrival at Gondar — Kingpajfes the ^accav:,' 

 ze — Iteghc and Socinios Jiy from Gofidar. 



SHALL now refume the hiftory of AbyfTinia itfelf, fo far 

 as I was concerned in it, or had an opportunity of know- 

 ing, and this I fliall follow as clofely as pofTible, till I begin 

 my return home through thofe dreary and hitherto-un- 

 known deferts of Sennaar, though not the moll entertain- 

 ing, yet by far the moll dangerous and moll difficult part 

 of the voyage. 



It was about the 20th of October that Woodage Afahel 

 came with a llrong body of horfe into the neighbourhood 

 of Gondar, and cut ofl' all communication between the 

 capital and thofe provinces to the fouthward of it. This 

 occafioned a temporary famine, as his troops plundered all 

 thofe they met on the road carrying provifions to the mar- 

 ket. At firll he refuied to tell what his real errand was ; 

 4 but, 



