14 _ TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
my interceflion, and that of thofe about him, he was par- 
doned, and the drunkard’s fafh was returned to him. 
Ever fince the middle of February, Ras Michael had re- 
folved to march out, and give battle to the rebels encamp- 
ed about Korreva, committing every fort of violence, and 
burning all the villages, houfes, and barns in Dembea, - 
with the corn they contained more than what ferved tor 
their prefent ufe; but the great fuperiority of the enemy 
in horfe had always made him delay his intention. 
YasineE had, indeed, fucceeded in his commiflion to Sen- 
naar, as faras it regarded the horfes. He had found the 
Arabs encamped immediately upon the frontier at Ras el 
Feel, and had received from them very near 200 of one 
kind or other, of which 76 only anfwered the purpofe of 
mounting the king’s black fervants ; the others were dif-. 
tributed among the reft of the army that wanted them. But 
they had not been equally fuccefsful in purchafing their 
coats of mail, fourteen only of which had been brought 
with the horfes. In order to buy the reft, the meflenger con- 
tinued ‘his journey to Sennaar, and with him my fervantSo- ~ 
man with my letters, to which, of confequence, I had as: 
yet no return.. But what appeared at that time moft mate- 
rial to me, Fidele Shekh of Atbara wrote to Yafine, “ That, 
there was no fear but that I fhould be well received at Sen- 
paar, where Naffer, a young king, had fucceeded his father,, 
whom he had depofed; but that the great difficulty was. 
to pafs between Ras el Feel and. Teawa, the place of his refi- 
dence, and from thence to the banks of the river Dender,, 
_ for that the Ganjar horfe of Kuara, and the Arabs their: 
$riends, were at war with the Arabs of Atbara, and had: 
burnt 
