THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, 203 
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Reception at Icherkin We Ozoro Eft pher, &ce.— Hunting of the Elephant. 
_ Rhinoceros, and Buffalo. - 
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FHE impatient Welleta Yafous would only give me time 
to fee my quadrant and other inftruments fafely ftow- 
ed, but burried me through avery narrow and crooked ' 
path up the fide of the mountain, at every turn of which 
was placed a great rock or ftone, the ftation for mufquets - 
to enfilade the different flages of the road below, where it 
was ftrait for any diftance. We at laft reached the outer 
court, where we found the chamberlain Ammonios, whom . 
- Welleta Yafous had fpoken of as being fill at Gondar; but 
this did not furprife me, as he told me at the tent that Ayto 
Confu was arrived. I faw here a great many of my old ac- 
-quaintance whom I had aor, at Ozoro Efther’s houfe at 
Gondar, ; 
