THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 10% 
fom in the tent: he ftarted up I believe without divining the 
caufe, and before he had time to recollect himfelf, they fell 
all upon him, and with putfhes and blows drove this greafy 
ehieftain to the door of the tent, flaring with wild amaze- 
ment, not knowing what was next to happen. It is high 
treafon, and punifhable by immediate death, to fit down up- 
en the king’s chair. Poor Guangoul owed his life to his. 
ignorance... The king had beheld the whole fcene through 
the curtain; if he laughed heartily at’ the beginning, he 
laughed ten times more at the cataftrophe ; he came out 
laughing, and unable to {peak. The cufhion was lifted and 
thrown away, and a yellow Indian fhaal fpread on the ivory. 
ftool; and ever after, when it was placed, and the king not 
there, the ftool was turned on its face upon the carpet to. 
prevent fuch like accidents.. : 
Guancout, difappointed of having an audience of the 
king, went to the Ras, where he was better received, but 
what pafied I know not. His troops, armed like himfelf, 
with fhields of no refiftance, and hedge-ftakes burnt and: 
fharpened at the end inftead of lances, were no acquifition. 
to any party, efpecially in the prefent quarrel, where all the 
veteran troops in Abyffinia were nearly equally divided on 
‘oppofite fides ; befides, the Shoa horfe had taken the eyes of 
- people fo much, that they began to think little of any ca-. 
valry that was not in fome degree equipped like them. 
Arrer the king returned to the palace, great diverfion: 
was made at Guangoul’s appearance, in fo much that Ozo- 
ro Efther, who hated the very name of Galla, and. of this. 
race in particular, infifted upon feeing a reprefentation of 
it. Deho, accordingly, a dwarf belonging to Ras Michael, 
very. 
