264. TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
-TuE crown is:made in the fhape of .a.prieft’s. mitre, or 
‘head-piece ; it is-a kind of helmet, covering the king’s fore- 
head, cheeks, and neck. It is lined-with' blue. taffety ; the 
outfide is half gold and half filver, of the:moft beautiful fil- 
ligrane work. 
THE crown, in Joas’s time, was burnt, with part of the pa- 
lace,-on. that day when Ras Michael’s dwarf was fhot in his 
own houfe before him. ‘The prefent was fince made by 
the Greeks from Smyrna, who have large appointments 
here, and work with-very great tafte and elegance, though 
they have.nor near fo much encouragement as formerly. 
‘Upon the. top of the crown was a ball of red glafs, or 
.chryftal, with feveral bells of different colours within it. It 
feems to me to have formerly been no better than part of 
the ftopper of a glafs-decanter. Be that as it may, it was 
loft in Yafous’s time at the defeat.of Sennaar, It was found, 
however, by a Mahometan, and brought by Guangoul, chief 
of the Bertuma Galla, to the frontiers of Tigre, where Mi- 
chael, governor of that province, went with an army in great 
ceremony to receive it, and, returning with it, gave it to 
king Yafous, making thereby a great advance towards the 
king’s favour. 
Some people *, among the other unwarranted things they 
have advanced, have faid, That, at the king’s coronation, a — 
gold ear-ring is pnt into his ears, and a drawn {word into 
dus hand, and that all the people fall down and worthip 
5 him ; 
* Vid. Le Grande’s Hitt. of Abyflinia. 
