THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. c,:i,j 



'however, the flate of my kingdom, I prefer its intercft to 



* the private afFedtion 1 bear my fon ; and do, therefore, here- 



* by appoint Za Denghel my nephew to fuccced me, and be 



* your king; and recommend him to you as fit for war, ripe 



* in years, exemplary in the practice of every virtue, and 



* as deferving of the crown by his good quahties, as he is by 



* his near relation to the royal family.' And with thefc words 

 the king expired in the end of Auguil 1595, and was buried 

 in the ifland Roma. 



As foon as Sertza Denghel died, the nobility refumed 

 their former refolutions. The very reafons the dying king 

 had given them, why Za Denghel was fitted to reign, were 

 thofe for the which they were detennincd to rejedl him ; as 

 they, after fo long a reign as the lafl, were pcrfetflLy weary 

 at being kept in their, duty, and defired nothing more than 

 an infant king and a long minority ; this they found in. 

 Jacob. 



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