330 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



At that period, Socinios had determined upon an expe- 

 dition againll the Funge, that is, againll the blacks of Sen- 

 naar, who had entered his country in a violent manner, de- 

 ftroying his people, and carrying them off as flaves. It was, 

 therefore, concerted, that while the king was bufied far off 

 with the Funge, Emana Chrillos, Julius, and the eunuch 

 Kefla, at once Ihould attack Sela Chriftos, at whom, next to 

 the king, the confpirators chiefly aimed; and the caufe was, 

 that the king had taken the polls of Ras and the govern- 

 ment of Gojam from Emana Chriftos, who was a fchifma- 

 tic, and had given them to his younger brother, Sela Chriftos, 

 a violent Catholic^ 



Julius began by a proclamation in Woggora, in which he 

 commanded, that thofe who believed two natures in Chrift 

 Ihould immediately leave the province, and that all thofe 

 who were friends to the Alexandrian faith fhould forthwith 

 repair to him, and fight in defence of it. He then ordered 

 the goods of all the Catholics in Tigre to be confifcated, and 

 ftraightway marched to furprife Sela Chriftos then in Go- 

 jan!i. But the king received intelligence of his defigns, and 

 returned into Dembea before it was v/ell known that he had 

 left it. This, at firft, very much difconcerted Julius ; and 

 the rather, that Emana Chriftos and Kefla Wahad kept aloof, 

 nor had they declared themfelves openly yet, nor did they 

 feem inclined to do it till Julius had firft tried his fortune 

 with the king. 



This rebel, now full of prefumption, advanced with his 

 army to where the Nile iflues out of the great lake Tzana ; 

 and there he found the Abuna Simon, who had ftaid for 

 fame weeks in one of the iflands upon pretence of devotion. 



Simon, 



