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CHAP. II. 



Reception at tcherktn by Ozoro Efther^ 'xJe. — Hunting of the Lkpbanty 



Rhinoceros, and Buffalo. - 



THE impatient Welleta Yafous would only give me time 

 to fee my quadrant and other inftruments fafely flow- 

 ed, but hurried me through a very narrow and crooked 

 path up the fide of the mountain, at every turn of which 

 was placed a great rock or ftone, the flation for mufqucts 

 to enfilade the different ftages of the road below, where it 

 WIS ftrait for any diftance. We at lail reached the outer 

 court, where we found the chamberlain Ammonios, whom 

 Welleta Yafous had fpoken of as being ftill at Gondar ; but 

 this did not furprife me, as he told me at the tent that Ayto 

 Confu was arrived. I favv here a great many of my old ac- 

 quaintance whom I had known at Ozoro Efther's houfe at 



Gondar^ 



