Produced by Chris Curnow, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. IN FIVE VOLUMES. BY JAMES BRUCE OF KINNAIRD, ESQ. F.R.S. [Illustration] VOL. IV. _Sola potest Libye turbam præstare malorum, Ut deceat fugisse viros._ LUCAN, lib. ix. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY J. RUTHVEN, FOR G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON. M.DCC.XC. CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME. BOOK VII. RETURN FROM THE SOURCE OF THE NILE TO GONDAR--TRANSACTIONS THERE--BATTLE OF SERBRAXOS, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES--THE AUTHOR PREPARES TO LEAVE ABYSSINIA. CHAP. I. _Return from the Source of the Nile by Maitsha--Come to the House of Welled Amlac--Reception there--Pass the Nile at Delakus--Arrive at Gondar_, P. 1 CHAP. II. _Fasil's insidious Behaviour--Arrival at Gondar--King passes the Tacazzé--Iteghé and Socinios fly from Gondar_, 30 CHAP. III. _The Author joins the Army at Mariam-Ohha--Reception there--Universal Terror on the Approach of the Army--Several great Men of the Rebels apprehended and executed--Great Hardness of the King's Heart_, 54 CHAP. IV. _The King promises Leave to the Author to depart--Receives a Reinforcement from Shoa--Amiable Carriage of Amha Yasous--Striking Contrast between him and a Prince of the Galla--Bad State of the King's Affairs_, 87 CHAP. V. _Rebel Army approaches Gondar--King marches out of Gondar--Takes Post at Serbraxos--The Author returns to Gondar with Confu, wounded_, 110 CHAP. VI. _Michael attempts to enter Begemder--First Battle of Serbraxos--The Rebels offer Battle to the King in the Plain--Armies separated by a violent Storm_, 138 CHAP. VII.