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to excite the people of that province to rebel and join Julius, 

 whofe arrival he daily expected, that, together, they might 

 fight Sela Chriftos. But the raflmefs of Julius, and the 

 march of Sela Chriftos to the king's affiftance, had very 

 much difconcerted their whole fcheme. 



Af Christos, who commanded inGojam after the depar- 

 ture of Ras Sela Chriftos, fent to Melca Amba, " reproaching 

 Emana Chriftos with feditious pradtices ; upbraiding him 

 with the unnatural part he aded, being a brothcr-german 

 to Sela Chriftos, and brother to Socinios by the fame mo- 

 ther, while Julius was married to his daughter, and had 

 conftantly enjoyed the great places of the empire. He 

 afked him, What they could be more ? Kings they could 

 not be, neither he nor Julius. Ras, the next place in the 

 empire, they both had enjoyed ; and, if the king had taken 

 that office lately from Emana Chriftos, he had not given it 

 to a ftranger, but to his brother Sela Chriftos, who, it was 

 but fair, ftiould have his turn ; and that the importance of 

 his family was not the lefs increafed by it. Laftly, he re- 

 prefented the danger he ran, if Julius made his peace, of 

 falling a facrifice as the advifer of the rebellion." 



Emana Christos anfwered, " That though he rebelled 

 with Julius, and at the fame time, yet it was not as a fol- 

 lower of Julius, nor againft the king ; but that he took up 

 arms in defence of the ancient faith of his country, which 

 was now, without reafon, trodden under foot in favour of a 

 religion, v/hich was a falfe one if they underftood it, and an 

 ufelefs one if they did not. He faid he was fatisfied of his 

 own danger ; but neither his connection with the king, nor 

 Jiis bcmg related to Sela Chriftos, could vs eigh with him 



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