THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 2^ 



months, to perfiil in flaying longer at fuch a feafon in this 

 country was equal to the condemning them to death. 



GiMMEL-EDDiN, moreovcr, the new-appointed governor, 

 infifled with Amda Sion, that he was able enough himfelf 

 to keep all the tributary provinces in peace,, and true alle- 

 giance to the king ; but if, on the contrary, the king chofc 

 to eat them up with a large army living conftantly among 

 them, as well as upon every pretence laying them walle with 

 the fvvord in the manner he was now doing, he could not be- 

 an fwerable for, nor did he believe they would be able to pay 

 him, the tribute he expe<!ted from them. But the king, who 

 faw the motives both of his officers and of the Moorilli go- 

 vernor, continued fum in liis refolutions. He Iharply re- 

 proved both Gimmci-eddin and his army for their want of 

 difcipline, and defne of idlenefs, and ordered the officers to ac- 

 quaint their men, that, if they were afraid of rains, he would, 

 carry them to Jc/ely where there were none. ; that, for his part,, 

 he made a refolution, which he would keep mofl ftcadily, 

 never to leave his camp and the field while there was one 

 village in his own dominions that did. not acknowledge him 

 for its fovereign.. 



Accordingly on the ijth day of June 1316, immediately 

 after this declaration, he llruck his tents, and marched into 

 Samhar, to difappoint, if poffible, the confederacy that fome 

 of the principal Moorilli dates had entered into againll him, 

 which were agreed, one by one, to harrafs his camp by night, 

 and, after having obliged him to retreat toShoa in diforder,to 

 give him battle tliere before he had time to refrclhhis troops. 

 The authors of this confpiracy were feven in number, Adel, 



Mara. 



