aq TRAVELS TQ DISCOVER: |} 
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CFE AYP eile. 
Interview with Gufho in his Tent—Converfation and interefling Intelli= — 
gence there—Return to the Camp—King’s Army returns to Gondar— 
Great Confufion in that Night’s March. 
N the 25th of May, early in the morning, I went to 
; Gufho. When I arrived near his tent I difmounted _ 
my mule, and, as the king had commanded me, bared my-_ 
felf to below the breafts, the fign of being bearer of the 
king’s orders. Four men were now fent from the tent, 
who, two and two, fupported each arm, and introduced me 
in this ftate immediately to Gufho. He was fitting on a kind 
of bed, covered with fcarlet cloth, and edged with a deep 
gold fringe. As foon as I came near him, 1 began, “ Hear 
what the king fays to you.” In a moment he rofe, and, | 
{tripping himfelf bare to the waift, he bowed with his 
forehead on the fcarlét cloth, but did not, as was his duty, 
ftand on the ground, and touch it with his forehead, tho’ 
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