506 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
Tuis intelligence, which came all at once upon us, made 
us lay afide the thoughts of fleeping that night; we defcended 
the hill of Mefcala Chriftos in great hafte, and with much | =: 
difficulty, and came to: the river Kemon below it, clear and 
limpid, but having little water, running over a bed of very 
large ftones. This river, too, comes from the north-weft, and 
falls into the lake a little below; we refted on its banks half 
an hour, the weather being very fultry; from this place we 
had a diftinct view of the Nile, where, after croffing the lake, 
it iffues out near Dara, the fcene of our former misfor-- 
tunes; we fet it carefully by the compafs, and it bore nearly 
S. W. 
We began our journey again at three quarters after two,. 
and at half after three we pafled a river, very clear, with little: 
water, the name of which I have forgot ;: by the largenefs 
of its bed it feemed to be a very confiderable ftream in win- 
ter; at prefent it had very littie water, but a fine gravelly 
bottom; here we met multitudes of peafants flying before 
the army of Fafil, many of whom, feeing us, turned out of 
the way ; one of thefe was a fervant of Guebra Ehud, brother 
to Ayto Aylo, my moft intimate friend: he told us it was 
very poflible that Fafil would pafs us that night, advifed us. 
not to hnger in the front of fuch an army, but fall in as 
foon as poflible with his Fit-Auraris, rather than any other of 
his advanced pofts; he was carrying a meflage to his mafter’s. 
brother at Gondar. I told him I had rather linger in the 
front of fuch an army than in the rear of it, and fhould 
be very forry to be detained long, even in the middle of it; 
that I only wifhed to falute Fafil, and procure a pafs and re~ 
commendations from him to Agow Midre.. 
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