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took, of the fame materials, to build a palace for him at tlie 

 fouthmoft end of this peninfula, which is called Gorgora. 

 It was with amazement mixed with terror that they faw a 

 houfe rife uponhoufe, for fo they call the different ftoreys. 



Paez here difplayed his whole ingenuity, and the extent 

 ■of his abilities. He alone was archited, mafon, fmith, and 

 carpenter, and with equal dexterity managed all the inftru- 

 ments ufed by each profeffion in the feveral ftages of the 

 work. The palace was what wc Ihall call wainfcoted with 

 cedar, divided into ftate-rooms, and private apartments 

 likewife for the queen and nobihty of both fcxes that form- 

 ed the court, with accommodations and lodgings for guards 

 and fervants. 



As the king had at that time a view to attack the rebels, 

 the Agows and Damots, and to check the inroads of the 

 ■Galla into Gojam, he faw with pleafure a work going on 

 that provided the mofl commodious refidence where his oc- 

 cupation in all probability was chiefly to lie. His principal 

 aim was to bring into his kingdom a number of Portuguefc 

 troops, which, joined to thofe already there, and the con- 

 verts he propofed to make after embracing the Catholic 

 religion, might enable him to extirpate that rebellious fpi- 

 rit which fecmed now univerfally to have taken poffeflion 

 •of t"he hearts of his fubjecT:s, and efpecially of the clergy, of 

 late taught, he did not feem to know how, that mofl: dan- 

 gerous privilege of curfmg and excommunicating kings. 

 He had not feen in Peter Pacz and his fcllow-pricfls any 

 thing but fubmiffion, and a love of monarchy ; their lives 

 and manners were truly apofl:olical ; and he never thought, 

 till he came afterwards to be convinced upon proof, that 



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