58 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER , 



The fanatic and ignorant monks, heated with the laft 

 •difpute,were fired with rage at the indignity which they fup- 

 pofed was offered to our Saviour. But the king, ftruck with 

 the beauty of the pidure, and thinking blood enough had 

 been ah^eady fhedupon religious fcruples, was refolved to hu- 

 mour the fpirit of perfecution no farther. Somfe of the ring- 

 leaders of thefe difturbances privately difappearing, the reft 

 faw the neceility of returning to their duty ; and the pic- 

 ture was placed on the altar of Atronfa Mariam, and there 

 preferved, notwithftanding the devaftation of the country 

 by the Moors under the reigns of David III. and Claudius, 

 till many years afterwards, together with the church, it was 

 deftroyed by an inroad of the Galla. 



In the mean time, the army from Dawaro had entered 

 the kingdom of Adel under Betwudet * Adber Yafous,and, 

 exped:ing to find the Moors quite unprepared, they had be- 

 gun to wafte every thing with fire and fword. But it was 

 not long before they found the inhabitants of Adel ready 

 to receive them, and perfectly inflrucfted of the king's in- 

 tentions, from the moment he left Dawaro, to go to meet 

 his fon in Gojam. Indeed, it could not be otherwife, from 

 the multitude of Moors conllantly in his army, who, though 

 they put on the appearance of loyalty, never ceafed to have 

 a warm heart towards their own religion and countrymen. 

 Advanced parties appeared as foon as the Abyflinian army 

 entered the frontiers; and thefe were followed by the main 

 body in good order, determined to fight their enemy before 

 they had time to ravage the country. 



A BATTLE 



* Betwudet is an officer that has nearly the fame power as Ras ; there were two of thefe, 

 .and both being flain at one biUtle, as we fhnll fee in fi.e leqKol, the odke grew into difjfe as 

 lAnfortiinate. 



