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CHAP. IX. 



interview with GuJJoo in his 'Tent — Convej-fation and inter cjltng IntellU- 

 gence there — Return to the Camp — Kings Army returns to Gondar-'-' 

 Great Confnfion in that Night's March. . 



ON the 25th of May, early in the morning, I went to > 

 Gufho. When I arrived near his tent I difmounted 

 my mule, and, as the king had commanded me, bared my- 

 felf to below the breafts, the fign of being bearer of the 

 king's orders. Four men were now fent from the tent,, 

 who, two and two, fupported each arm, and introduced me 

 in this ftate immediately to Gufho. He was fitting on a kind . 

 of bed, covered with fcarlet cloth, and edged with a deep 

 gold fringe. As foon as I came near him, I began, " Hear 

 what the king fays to you." In a moment he rofe, and, 

 llripping himfelf bare to the waift, he bowed with his 

 forehead on the fcarlet cloth, but did not, as was his duty, 

 iland on the ground, and touch it with his forehead, tho' 



there 



