63^ TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



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ZA DENGHEL. 



From r595 to 1604. 



JZa Dcnghel dethroned — Jacob a Minor fiicceeds—Za Dengbel is reflo" 

 red — Banifies Jacob to Narea — Converted to the Ror?ii/Jj Religion—- 

 Battle ofBartcho^ and Death of the King. 



SERTZA DENGHEL had feveral daughters, one of whom 

 was married to Kefla Wahad, governor of the province 

 of Tigre, and another to Athanafms, governor of Amhara. 

 Thefe two were the mofl powerful men then in the kingdom. 

 The emprefs and her two fons-in-law faw plainly, that the 

 fuccellion of Za Denghel, a man of ripe years, pofTelTed of 

 every requifite for reigning, was to exclude them from any 

 jQiare in government but a fubaltern one, for which they 

 were to Hand candidates upon their own merits, in common 

 with the reft of the nobility. 



Accordingly, no fooner was SertzaDenghel dead, perhaps 

 fome time before, but a confpiracy was formed to change 

 the order of fucceffion, and this was immediately executed 

 by order of this triumvirate, who fent a body of foldiers 

 and feized Za Denghel, and carried him ciofe prifoner to 



4 Dek, 



