THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 44:3 
piafies, likewife for the king ; each of the mules was covered 
with a carpet, and alfo the panniers ; and upon the pack-fad- 
dle, between thefe panniers, did Strates and Sebaftos ride. The 
roules as wellas the loading belonged to the king, and they 
only were permitted to ride them becaufe they were fick. 
Strates went firft, and, to fave trouble, the halter of Seba- 
ftos’s mule was tied to Strates’s faddle, fo the mules were 
faftened toand followed one another. Upon firing the gun 
fo near it, Strates’s mule, not ufed to compliments of this 
kind, ftarted, and threw him to the ground; it then tram- 
pled upon him, began to run off, and wound the halter a- 
round Sebaftos behind, who fell'to the ground likewife a- 
monegft fome ftones. Both the mules then began kicking 
at each other, till they had thrown off the panniers and 
pack-faddles, and broke every thing that was brittle in them. 
The mifchief did not end here, for, in ftruggling to get 
leofe, they fell foul of the mule of old Azage Tecla Haim- 
anout, one of the king’s criminal judges, a very old, feeble 
man, and threw him uponthe ground, and broke his foot, 
fo that he could not walk alone for feveral months after- 
wards. As foon as I had pitched a tent for the wounded, 
and likewife drefled Tecla Haimanout’s foot, I went to Kefia 
Yafous, while the two Mahomets proceeded to the Ras with 
#heir money. 
"THE moment I came into the tent, Kefla Yafous rofe up 
andembraced me. He was fitting alone, but with rather a 
chearful than a dejected countenance; he told me they 
were all in great concern, ull Ayto Adigo’s arrival, at a re- 
port which came fromi Gondar that we had fought with 
Guebra Mehedin, and had all been flain. I informed him 
every thing I knew, or had heard, but he had better intel- 
a ia <r) ligence 
