THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. ry 
- “Your matter, Welled Amlac, with your leave, faid. I.” 
“ Yes, mine too, faid he, by force, but he never fhall be my 
matter by inclination, after murdering Kafmati Efhté. He 
calls me his brother, and believes me his friend. You faw 
one of his wives, whom he leaves at my houfe, laf 
night, but I hope ftill to fee him and his Galla flaugh:- 
tered as the cow in my houfe was yefterday.” “ I am: 
furprifed, faid I, your houfe’ was fpared,; and that: Ras 
Michael did not burn it in either. of his paflages through’ 
Maitfha.”—“ In 1769, replied he, I was not. with Fafil at: Fa-- 
gitta, and the Ras paffed the Nile above this far beyond the | 
Kelti; after which‘ returned with him.to Gondar. In Gin-- 
bot *, Fafil informed us that Amhara and Begemder. were 
come over to him. When then all Maittha joined Fafil, I wene 
with my people to meet Michael at Derdera, as I knew he 
muft pafs. the Nile here: oppofite to Abbo, and Bezemder 
and Amhara would then be behind him, or.elfe try to crofs 
at Delakus, which was then fwollen with rain, and.unford- 
able:: but apprehenfive left, marching full higher up. 
along the Nile to find a ford, he might burn-my houfe in 
his way, I myfelf joined him the night. before he knew of. 
Powuffen’s revolt, and he had it then in contemplation to 
burn Samfeens:» The next morning was that of ‘his retreat, 
and he chofe me to accompany him aerofs the Nile, ftill con- 
fidering me as his. friend, and therefore, perhaps, he would 
have done»no harm to. my houfe.”——* So it was you, faid I,. 
that led-us that day into:that.curfed clay-hole, which you 
calla ford,;:where fo many people and beafts were maimed 
and loft ?’—He replied, “ It was Fafil’s fpies that firft perfuad2 
ed: 
*-The-1f of Ginbot is the.26th of our April. - 
