TRAVELS IN ABYSSINIA* 
then left Geesli, and went to the house of Welled 
Amlac, an intimate friend of Fasil, with whom the 
wife of that chief was residing, and where he was 
received with ample and very peculiar marks of 
barbarous hospitality. Meantime Michael, having 
assembled a large army in Tigre, marched upon 
Gondar, which the confederates being unable to 
maintain against him, retreated and left him again 
in possession of that capital. This was a revolu- 
tion entirely acceptable to Mr Bruce, who had al- 
ways continued attached to Michael. He was mis- 
taken, however, in supposing that his residence at 
Gondar would now be agreeable. Michael came 
breathing vengeance upon all who had taken part 
against him in his recent reverse ; and his own 
austere character heightening the ferocious tem- 
per of the nation, drove him and his adherents into 
the most furious extremities. The streets of Gon- 
dar streamed with blood ; and the dead bodies be- 
ing left unburied, were devoured by the hyenas, 
who came down hi large herds from the neighbour- 
ing mountains. Mr Bruce could not stir abroad 
without meeting spectacles which froze his senses 
with horror ; while his sensibility to them, being 
considered as a proof of effeminacy, tended to lower 
his estimation in the eyes of the Abyssinians. Mean- 
time, new revolutions were abroad. The confede- 
rates had again reinforced their army, and were in 
a condition to resume the offensive. Michael 
