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tie the brave monk, Andreas *, much advanced in years, was, 

 flain, behaving vi^ith the greateft gallantry, unwilling to fur-, 

 vive the ruin of his country. 



The Moors now found it unneceflary to keep together 

 an army. They divided into fmall parties, that they might 

 more eifedually and fpeedily ruin the country,. Part of 

 Gragne's army was detached to burn Axum; the. other un- 

 der Simeon continued in Amhara to watch the king's mo-, 

 tions ; and, while he attempted to relieve Axum, difperfed 

 his army, on which the town was burnt, and with it many, 

 of the richeft churches in Abyflinia, Hallelujah, Banquol,, 

 Gafo, Debra Kcrbe, and many others. And, on the 7th of; 

 April, Saul, fon of Tesfo Yafous, fought another detachment 

 of the Moorifh army, and was cut to pieces, . 



The 28th year of his reign, 1536, the king crofled the- 

 Tacazze, and had many, difaftrous encounters with the peo-. 

 pie of Sire and Serawe. Tesfo TOul, who commanded in, 

 this latter province for the king, furprifed a Turkifh party, 

 luider Adli, wliom he flew, a.nd met with the fame fate; 

 himfelf from Abbas, Moorifli governor of Serawe, when a.- 

 great many of the principal people of that province were thercr 

 flain. Galila, a large iiland in the lake Tzana, was plundered,.^ 

 and the convent upon it burnt. It was one of the principal ; 

 places where the Abyffinians hid. their treafure, and a great, 

 booty was found therCo 



In the following year^ Gragne, in a meffage reprefcnted ' 

 io him, that he might fee he was fighting againll God, ex- 

 horting- 



* It was he who, as we have fcen, fl«w the Moor MafFudi in fingle combat in tlie beginning,,; 

 «"<his rcian. 



