54 - TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
CHAP. Ml. 
Lhe Author joins the Army at Mariam-Obha—Reception there—Uni 
verfal Terror on the Approach of the Army-—Several great Men of 
the Rebels apprehended and executed—Great Hardnefs of the King’s 
Lieart. 
HY fill fome doubt about the propriety of going 
to Mariam-Obha, till the king had taken poft there, 
{ appointed with Ayto Confu to meet him next morning,’ 
‘the 22d, in the plain below the church of Abbo, where is 
the pafs called Semma Confu, the dangerous path, from 
its being always a place where banditti refort to rob paf 
fengers in unfettled times. 
In my way through the town, though the day had 
fcarce dawned, numbers of the king’s fervants, that had 
come from Tigré, flocked about me with great demonftra- 
tions of joy; and, by the time I got into the plain below 
Abbo, | had already collected a ftrong party both of horfe 
iit Sait. and 
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