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to laugh at their prefages, and prophecies, was obferved by 

 the page that brought me the bird, and was reported to 

 the king ; and though he did not fpeak of it that time, yet 

 fome days after, when I was taking my leave of him v on 

 his retreat from Gondar to Tigre, he mentioned it to me 

 faid we were miftaken, for the omen referred to PowuiTen* 

 of Begemder, and not to Waragna EafiL 



After fketching his genteel and noble. manner while 

 alive, our unfortunate > prifoner found his death by the 

 needle, was put out of fight, and carried to Gondar, where 

 the drawing was finifhed. He was altogether of a dark 

 brown, or chefnut, leading to black. The whole length, 

 from the extremity of the tail to the nofe, was two feet 

 four inches. The breadth, from wing to wing, four feet 

 fix inches. He was very lean, and weighed fomething lefs 

 than five pounds. The fourth feather of his wing after the 

 three largeft, was white. The feathers of the lower fide of 

 his tail were of a bluifli brown, checkered with white, and 

 thofe of the upper fide of the tail were black and white 

 alternately. His thighs were thick-covered with feathers, 

 and fo were his legs, down. to the joining of the foot. His 

 feet were yellow, with ftrong black claws. The inlide of 

 his wings was white, with a mixture of brown. His leg^ from 

 the joining of the foot, was three inches. . His beak, from 

 * e point to where the feathers reached, was two inches and 

 a quarter. The length of his creft from the head -to the 

 longell feather, five inches. The eye was black, with a call 

 of fire colour in it, the iris yellow, and the whole eye ex- 

 ceedingly beautiful. He feemed wonderfully tame, or 

 rather nuggifh, but whether that was from his nature or. 

 2 mis for- 



