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derer pointed out tlie spot where the body laj, it was found to 
be shallowly covered with earth that the arm was the first 
part that presented itself, on which was a kind of cartouche the 
Abesh wear on their arm to guard them from evil ; hy this iftvas 
known that it ivas the king, and the body covered, and a tent 
placed over it to he raised up on the Pascha day, Tuesday 2\st 
and, again, in another place, that at the church-yard they only 
uncovered the arm, and saiv the blood-stained cartouche;' and 
not a word is here mentioned of the exposure of the body, the 
carpet, or the miislin. Can any thing be more diiFerent than 
these two accounts ? The latter too is infinitely more consistent 
than the former narrative ; for it there appears that the Abys- 
sinians, as they would naturally have felt, were shocked at the 
first circumstance which identified the body, and carefully 
covered it over, and abstained from disturbing it, as it already had 
been placed in consecrated groimd. The whole chain of addi- 
tional remarks, therefore, connected with the exposure of the 
body, and the humanity said to have been displayed on the 
occasion, may be considered merely as poetical embellishments. 
I here beg leave to observe, that the reader who wishes to form 
a just estimate of the merits and faults of Mr. Bruce should care- 
fully compare the information given in the late appendices with 
the original publication, and, after perusing both with attention, 
he will find that I have selected only a small portion of the con- 
tradictions subsisting between them ; as I have been anxious to 
enter only so far into the question, as might tend to justify the ob- 
servations I felt myself compelled to make respecting this tra- 
veller ; for, had I altogether evaded the question, I might, with 
