R24 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER: 
him under the banner of ‘Chrift,—* I confefs. one baptifm: 
for the remiflion of. fins,” fays the Symbol.:. Now it was 
maintained by the Jefuits, that in Abyfiinia, once every year, 
they baptifed all grown people, or adults. I fhall, as briefly> 
as poflible, fet down what I myfelf faw. while on the fpot. . 
Tue {mall river, running between the: town:of -Adowa 
and the church, had been dammed up for feveral days; 
the flream was fcanty, fo that it. fcarcely. overflowed. 
It was-in places three feet deep, in fome,: perhaps, four, 
or little more. Three large tents were. pitched the morn- 
ing before the feaft of the Epiphany ; one on the north fon 
the priefts to repofe in during intervals of .the.fervice, and 
befide this one to communicate in:- onthe fouth there was 
a third tent for. the monks and. priefts of another: church 
to reft themfelves in their turn.. About twelve o'clock at 
night the.monks and_priefts met together, and began theis 
prayers and pfalms at the water-fide, one party relieving - 
each other. At-dawn of day the governor, Welleta Michael, | 
came thither. with fome foldiers to raife.men for kas Mi- 
chael, then.on his march againft Waragna Fafil, and fas 
down on a fmall hill by the water-fide, the troops all fkirs- 
mifhing on foot and.on horfeback around them, . 
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As foon as the fun began to-appear, three-large crofles of * 
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wood were carried by three priefts dreffed in their facerdos . 
tal veftments, and who, coming to the fide of the river, dipt- 
the crofs. into the water, and all this time the firing, fir: 
mifhing, and. praying went on together. The priefts. 
with the crofles returned, one of ‘their. number before - 
them carrying fomething lefs than an Englifh quart of | 
watcr.in-a filver. cup.or chalice; when: they were about 
fifty. 
