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As for their celeilial auxiliaries, whofe affillance they were 

 promifed as far as could be difcovered, ^they neither did 

 harm nor good. We may fuppofe they flood neuter. But 

 Batacu the hermit, ringleader of this fedition, whofe body 

 was fo miraculouily armed, that neither fword nor fpear 

 could make any impreffion upon it, was unfortunately thruft 

 through with a lance in the very beginning of the engage- 

 ment, which greatly ferved to difcredit thefe fupernatural 

 aids. 



It was in this year 1620, that Socinios marched into Be- 

 gemder againft Jonael. At which time Peter Paez was em- 

 ployed at Gorgora in building the church there. The king 

 returned immediately to Dancaz after the defeat of Jonael, 

 and.pafled his winter at that place. 



It was on the i6th of January 1621, that the dedication 

 of the church of Gorgora was made by Peter Paez ; and at 

 that time the king was in Begemder. Upon his return to 

 Dancaz he met Paez at Gorgora for the firft time. He re- 

 mained at Gorgora till the 3d of Oftober of that year, when 

 the news of the defeat of the Damots by Sela Chriflos arri- 

 ved, which he received in prefence of that prieft at Gorgora. 

 In this, both the Jefuits and Abyllinian annals agree. It is 

 not then poilible that Peter Paez could have been with the 

 king at Sacala, or Geefli, in the country of the Agows on 

 the 2 ill of March 1621*; for both Peter Paez and Socinios 



were at that time in Gorgora. 



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This will be more enlarged upon hereafter. 



