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presents of horses to the Emperor, in the same way as is now 
practised towards the Ras i but all further connexion had for a 
long time been broken off between these provinces and Gondar. 
The account of the Galla chief, Guanguol, he also said was 
strangely misrepresented : he recollected his visit to Gondar, but 
he was then very appropriately dressed, like those Galla (he re- 
marked,) whomlhad seen on a visit to Kas Welled Selasse (vide the 
portrait annexed). On my enquiring respecting the story of the 
Worari, he said he had heard of the practice, and believed it to be 
true ; but with regard to the living feast described by Mr. Bruce, he 
declared that he had never witnessed any such cruel practice, 
and expressed great abhorrence at the thought. He admitted 
the licentiousness of the higher orders to be carried to much 
greater lengths in Amhara than in Tigre ; but that the scene 
narrated by Mr. Bruce was certainly greatly exaggerated, a proof 
of which he drew from his mention 'vof the company drinking 
the health of the party,'' a custom absolutely unknown through- 
out Abyssinia ; KeflaYasous, he added, and many other persons 
of rank in the country, were greatly attached to Mr. Bruce ; and 
when he quitted Abyssinia, Dofter Esther said, that he left 
behind him a great name.'' 
I subsequently received accounts from many different quarters, 
which all tended in the strongest manner to corroborate the 
Debra Libanos, by means of this prince, is very suspicious, as he is mentioned to have 
only arrived at Gondar early in February, and yet, by the I7th of tlie same month, a mes- 
senger is sent to and from Debra Libanos, who brings the book back with him, which, 
making altogether a distance of nearly five hundred miles^ seems to render the whole story 
incredible, especially as the priests were not likely to have sent the original 3 and to have 
had it copied in so short a time was impossible. 
