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mufkets, cattle, and-horfes. All the’ town, that withed to be- 
well-looked upon by either-party, brought; fomething cons 
fiderable as a prefent.. The Ras, Ozoro Efthier,-and Qzore - 
Altafh, entertained all Gondar. A vaft number of cattle was. 
flaughtered every day, and. the whole town looked like one 
great market; the common: people, in every flreet, appear- 
ing loaded with.pieces of raw beef, while drink circulated* 
in the fame proportion. The Ras infifted upon my dining: 
with him every day, when he was fure to .give mea head- 
ach with the quantty.of mead, or. hydromel, he forced me- 
to fwallow, a liquor that never. aeiene with me finer ah 
firlt day to the laft. 
Arrer..dinner we flipt-away to parties of ladies, where. 
anarchy prevailed as complete as at the howfe of the Rasy. 
All the married women ate, drank, and fmoaked like the: 
men; and it is impoffible to convey.to the reader any idea 
of this bacchanalian fcene in. terms of common decency. . 
I found. it neceflary to quit this riot for.a fhort time, and. 
get leave to, breathe the frefh air of the country, at fuch a: 
diftance as that, once.a day, or once in. two days, | might be. 
at the palace, and avoid the.conftant fucceflion of thofe vio-- 
lent fcenes of debauchery. of which no European can form: 
any idea, and which .it was impoflible to Si even at. 
Kofcam. 
A.THoucs the king’s- favour, the: protection of. the Ras,’. 
and my obliging, attentive, and lowly behaviour to every. 
body, had made me as popular as I could wifh at Gondar, 
and among the Tigrans fully as much as thofe of. Amhara, . 
yet it was eafy to perceive, that the caufe of my quarrel 
with Guebra Mafcal was not yet forgot. . 
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