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MENAS, OR ADAMAS SEGUED. 



From 1559 to 1563. 



Baharnagajh rebels^ proclaims Tafcar King — Defeated by the Katig—- 

 Cedes Dobarwa to the Turks, and makes a League with the Bajha of 

 Mafuah. 



MENAS fucceeded his brother Claudius, and found his 

 kingdom in almoft as great confufion as it had been 

 left by his father David. His firll campaign was againll 

 Radaet the Jew. The king attacked him at his ilrongeft 

 poll in Samen, where he fought him with various fuccefs ; 

 and the enterprife did not feem much advanced, when a 

 hermit, refiding in thefe mountains, probably tired with the 

 neighbourhood of fuch troublefome people, came and told 

 the king, it had been revealed to him that the conquefl of 

 the Jews was not allotted to him, nor was their time yet 

 come. 



While the king feemed difpofed to avail himfelf of the 

 hermit's warning, as a decent excufe to get rid of an affair 

 that did not fucceed to his mind, an accident happened 

 which determined him to quit his prefent undertaking. 

 Two men, fliepherds of Ebenaat in Beleffen, from what in- 

 jury is not known, engaged two of the king's fervants, who 



were 



