s%0 ‘TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
As yet none of the chiefs of the rebels had entered Gon 
dar. Meflages had paffed, but not frequently, between the 
king and Gufho; fewer ftill between him and Powuffen ; 
as for the reft, they feemed to take no lead at all. 
On the 1ft of June, Gufho and Powuffen came both to 
the houfe of the Ras, where they interrogated him very 
roughly as to all his paft conduct. Till the execution of y 
Joas’s murderers, he had conftantly drefled himfelf in his 7 
very beft apparel, with all ‘the infignia of command. As 
foon as this was told him, he cloarhed himfelf plainly, and 
conflantly in white, with a cowl of the fame colour on his 
head, like the monks, a fign he had retired from the world, 
It feemed as if this was‘done through-a fondnefs for life, 
for by that act he devoted the remainder of his days to ob- 
fcurity and penitence. Nothing remarkable happened at 
this interview, at leaft as far as was known. From thence | 
Gu‘bo and Powuffen went to the king’s palace, where they 
‘did homage, and took the oaths of allegiance. 
Ir was there refolved that Gufho fhould be Ras, and 
the other places were all difpofed of. From this time for- 
ward the king began to have a fhew of government, no 
party having teftified any fort of difcontent with him; on 
the contrary, each of the rebel chiefs now waited upon him 
feparately, and had long conferences with him; but, what 
bade fairett to re-eftablith hts authority entirely was, the dif- 
yentions that evidently reigned among the leaders of the re- 
belsthemfelves, whom we, however, fhall no longer confider 
as fuch, not becaute their treafon had profpered, but be- 
caufe they were now returned to their duty. It was ftrong- 
Jy fufpected that a treaty was‘on foot between Gufho and 
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