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the Mahometans to cat no other flefli but what had been 

 killed by Chriftians ; and gathered together the Catholic 

 books, which the Jeluits had tranflated into the Ethiopia 

 language, and burned them in a heap. Much of his atten-. 

 tion was given to church matters, and, in regulating thefe^ 

 he feems to have employed moft of his time. He depofed 

 the Abuna Chriftadulus, appointed by his father, and in his 

 place put the Abuna Sanuda. 



This laft meafure feems to have difpleafed his eldeft fon 

 Yafous, who fled from the palace one night, and paffed the 

 Nile ; and, though he was followed by Kafmati Aferata 

 Chriftos, he was not overtaken, but ftaid fome time in his 

 filler's houfe, and then returned to Gondar at the requefl 

 .of his father. 



A CONVOCATION of tlic clcrgy, the fecond in this reign, 

 was now held, and great heats and divilions followed a- 

 mong two orders of monks, thofe of Euftathius and thofe 

 of Debra Libanos. The king feems to have aflifted at all 

 thefe debates, and to have contented himfelf with holding 

 the balance in his hands without declaring for cither party. 

 But thefe altercations and difputes couW not fatisfy the ac- 

 tive fpirit of the prince his fon, who again fled from his 

 father and from Gondar, but was overtaken at the r ver 

 Bafliilo, and brought back to the palace, where lie found 

 his father ill. 



Hannes died the iQtli of July, and was buried at Tedda, 



after hav ng reigned 15 years. He feems, from the fcanty 



memorials of his long reign, to have been a weak prince ; 



^ but^ 



