54 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



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CHAP. III. 



iTbe Author joins the Army at Mariam-Ohha — "Reception there — XJni' 

 V€rfal Terror on the Approach of the Army — Several great Men of 

 ihe Rebels apprehended and executed — Great Hardnefs of the King's 

 Heart. 



HAVING ftill fome doubt about the propriety of going 

 to Mariam-Ohha, till the king had taken poit there, 

 I appointed with Ayto Confu to meet him next morning, 

 the 2 2d, in the plain below the church of Abbo, where is 

 the pafs called Semma Confu, the dangerous path, from 

 its being always a place where banditti refort to rob paf- 

 fengers in unfettled times. 



In my way through the town, though the day had 

 fcarce dawned, numbers of the king's fervants, that had 

 come fiom Tigre, flrjcked about me with great demonftra- 

 tions of joy ; and, by the time I got into the plain below 

 Abba, I had already coUeded a ftrong party both of horfe 

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