THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 46g 
fengers from Gufho and’Powuflen, with various excufes why 
they had not joined. They were very ill received by the 
Ras, and refufed an audience of the king. Their prefent, 
which is always new clothes to fome value, was a {mall 
piece of dark-blue Surat cloth, value about half. a-crown, 
intended as an affront; they were not fuffered to fleep i in the 
camp, but forwarded to Fafil where they were going. 
TuHE 3d of June the army encamped on the river Kahha,. 
underGondar. From the time we left Dingleber, fome one: 
or other of the Ras’s confidential friends: had arrived every: 
day. Several of the great officers of {tate reached us at the. 
Kemona, many others met us at Abba Samuel. I did not per- 
_€eive the news they brought increafed the fpirits either of: 
the King-or the Ras;.the foldiers, however, were all con- 
tented, becaufe they were at home; but the officers, who - 
faw farther, wore very different countenances, efpecially 
thofe that were of Amhara.. 
J, in particular; had very little reafon to be’ pleafeds ; 
for, after. having undergone a conftant feries of fatigues, . 
dangers, and expences, 1 was returned to Gondar difappoint- 
ed of my views in arriving at the.fource of the: Nile, with- 
eut anyother. acquifition than a-violent ague: The place: 
where that: river: rifes remained ftill as great a fecret as it. 
had been ever fince the cataftrophe of Phaeton :—. 
Nilus in extremum fugit perterritus isi 
Satine caput, quod adbuc latet. 
Ovip. Mera, lib. ii. 
CHAT. 
