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which, in fome places, exterminated whole tribes, the Dobe- 

 nah have not loft an inch of territory, but feem rather to 

 be gaining upon Sire. 



Yasous arrived at Dancaz on the 8th of March 1592, 

 having difmiiTed his army as he paiTed Gondar. From 

 Dancaz he went to Lalla, and after a fliort ilay there, came 

 to Arringo in Begemder. At this place the king received 

 accounts that far exceeded his expedations, and gratified 

 his warmefl wiflies. He had long endeavoured to gain a 

 party among the Galla to divide them ; and, though no 

 marks of fuccefs had yet followed, he Hill had continued to 

 ufe his endeavours. 



On his arrival at Arringo, he was met by a chief of the 

 fouthern Galla, called Kal-kend, who brought him advice 

 that, while he was bufy with the Shangalla, an irruption 

 had been made into Amhara by the Galla tribes of Liban 

 and Toluma; that they, the king's friends, had come up 

 with them at Halka, fought with them, and beat them, and 

 freed Amhara entirely from all apprehenfion. The king, 

 exceedingly rejoiced to fee his moft inveterate enemies be- 

 come the defenders of his country, ordered the governor of 

 Amhara to pay the Kal-kend 500 webs of cotton-cloth, 500 

 loads of corn, and efcort both the men and the prefent till 

 they were fafely delivered in their own country. 



The 30th of June the king arrived at Gondar from Ar- 

 ringo, and immediately fummoned an affembly of the clergy 

 to meet and receive a letter from the patriarch of Alexan- 

 dria, brought by Abba Mafmur of Agde, and Abba Diof- 

 curos of Maguena, who were formerly fent to Egypt to 



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