550 TRAVELS TO DISGOVER. 
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Continue our Fourney—Fall in with a Party of Calle —Prove our 
Friends—Pafs the Nile—Arrive at Goutto, and vifit the TY, oh Cataral.. | 
N the fecond of Névenhbey, at feven in the mornin = we: 
O purfued our journey in a direction fouthward, and. 
pafled the church of Bofkon Abbo; ever memorable to us as. 
being the flation of Fafil in May, when he intended to cut 
us off after our paflage of the Nile. This brought on a con- 
‘verfation with our guide Woldo, who had been prefent with: 
Fafil at his camp behind this church, and afterwards when 
Michael offered him battle at Limjour, he was there attend- 
ing his matter. He faid, that the army of Welleta Yafous 
was above 12,000 ftrong; that they were intending to attack, 
the king at the ford, and had no doubt of doing it fuccefs- 
fully, as they imagined the King and Ras Michael, with part 
of both horfe and foot, would pafs early, but the reft with dif _ 
ficulty and dan ger; it was at that inflant Welleta Yafous was 
to fall upon thofe that remained with Kefla Yafous, on the _ 
other fide of the Nile, in uthas confufion in which they necef= 
farily: 
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