THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, 495 
CHAP, VIIL. 
Second Fourney to difeover the Source of the Nile—Fovourable Turn of 
the King’s Affairs in Tigre—We fall in with Fafi’s Army at Bamba. 
“WH YHOUGH the queen fhewed very great diflike to my at- 
tempting this journey at fuch atime, yet fhe did not 
pofitively command the contrary; I was prepared, therefore, 
to leave Gondar the 27th of October 1770, and thought to 
get a few miles clear of the town, and then make a long 
ftretch the next day. I had received. my quadrant, time- 
keeper, and telefcopes from the ifland of Mitraha, where I 
had placed them after the affair of Guebra Mehedin, and 
_ had now put them in.the very beft order. 
But, about twelve o’clock, I was told a meflage from Ras 
Michael had arrived with great news from Tigré. I went 
immediately to Kofcam as faft as I could gallop, and found 
there Guebra Chriftos, a man ufed to bring the jars of bou- 
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