THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, V 87 



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C H A P. IV. 



ItfJe King promifes Leave to the Author to depart — Receives a Rein-' 

 forceinent from Shaa — Amiable Carriage of Amha Yafous — Striking 

 Contrajl between him and a Prince of the Galla — Bad State oj the 

 Kitig's Affairs. 



T was the 31ft of December that we were at Kofcam. A 

 proclamation had been made fome days before of a ge- 

 neral pardon to all that would return to Gondar ; but no 

 one had ventured but Ayto Engedan, who was with Fafil as 

 the king's friend ; nor were any of thofe who went with 

 Fafil the obje(ft of the proclamation, for it was not thought 

 that the retiring from Socinios with Fafil was daing any- 

 thing againit their allegiance. 



That night the bodies of Guebra Denghel, Kefla Ma^ 



riam, and Sebaat I.aab, were taken down from the tree and 



laid upon the giound ; after having been watched in the 



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