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Cae St err eee 
Gr AP. TL 
Fafil ’s infidious Behaviour—Arrival at Gondar—King paffes the Taccaz~ 
ze—Iteghé and Socinios fly from Gondar. 
i SHALL now refume the hiftory of Abyffinia itfelf, fo far 
as I was concerned in it, or had an opportunity of know- 
ing, and this I fhall follow as clofely as poflible, till I begin 
my return home through thofe dreary and hitherto-un- 
known deferts of Sennaar, though not the moft entertain- 
ing, yet by far the moft dangerous and moft difficult part 
of the voyage. 
Ir was about the zoth of October that Woodage Afahel 
came with a ftrong body of horfe into the neighbourhood 
of Gondar, and cut off all communication between the 
capital and thofe provinces to the fouthward of it. This 
occafioned a temporary famine, as his troops plundered all 
thofe they met on the road carrying provifions to the mar- 
ket. At firft he refuted to tell what his real errand was ; 
4 but, 
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