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camped from Buré that very day the meflenger came away, 
advancing northward towards Gondar, but with what in-. 
tention he could not fay; and this was well known to be in-. 
telligence that might be f{trictly and certainly relied upon, ~ 
On the rsth, the king decamped early in the morning,. 
and, as prince George had faid the night before, led the van: 
in perfon; a flattering mark of confidence that Ras Michael} 
had. put in him now for the firft time, of which: the king was 
very fenfible. The Ras, however, had given hima dry nurfe*,. 
as it is called; in Billetana Gueta Welleta Michael, an old 
and approved officer, trained to war from: his infancy, and: 
furrounded with the moft tried of the troops of Tigré. The 
king halted at the river Gomara, but. advanced that fame> 
night to the paflage where the Nile comes out of the lake 
Tzana, and refumes again. the appearance of a. river.. 
Tue king remained the rsth: and 16th encamped upom. 
the Nile. Several things that fhould have given umbrage,, 
and begot fufpicion, happened. while they were in this fitua-. 
tion. Aylo, governor of Gojam, had’ been.fummoned to af- 
fift Ras Michael when Powuffen. and- Gufho. fhould. march 
to join him with their forces of Begemder and Amhara, and: 
his mother Ozoro Welleta. Hrael, then.at Gendar, had pro-. 
mifed he fhould not fail: This lady was younger fifter to 
©zoro Efther; both were-daughters of the Iteghé.. She was: 
as beautiful as Ozoro Efther, but very much. her inferior in: 
behaviour, character, and conduct: fhe had refufed the old 
Ras, who afked her in miarriage before he was called from: 
Tigré 
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