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impalpable powder, whilft the grain and plant die without 

 ever fliewing a tendency to germinate. 



We left the king, Ouftas, after deteding a confpiracy, 

 ready to fall upon fome fettlement of Shangalla. This he 

 ■executed with great fuccefs, and furrounded a large part of 

 the nation called Baafa, encamped under the trees fufpedt- 

 ing no danger. He put the grown people to the fword, and 

 look a prodigious number of children of both fexes captive. 

 -He was intending alfo to pufli his conqueft farther among 

 thefe favages, when he was called to Gondar by the death 

 of his prime miniller and confident, Ras Fafa Chriftos. 



Besides his attention to hunting and government, the 

 king had a very great tafte for architecfture, which, in A- 

 bylTmia, is a very popular one, though fcarcely any thing is 

 'built but chiu-ches. In the feafon that did not permit him 

 -to be in the field, he bellowed a great deal of leifure and 

 -money this way ; and he was, at this time, bufy eredling a 

 magnificent church to the Nativity, about a mile below 

 Gondar, on the fmall river, Kahha. 



But the feafon of hunting returning before he had finifh= 

 ed it, he left it to repair to Bet Malo, a place in the Kolla, 

 where he had built a hunting-feat, not far diilant from the 

 Shangalla, called Baafa. Here he had a mofl fuccefsful 

 hunting-match of the buflalo, rhinoceros, and elephant, in 

 which he often put himfelf in great danger, and diftin- 

 guilhed himfelf in dexterity and horfcmanlhip greatly a- 

 bove any of his court. He rctiu-ned upon news, that per- 

 fons, whom he had fecrecly employed, had apprehended 

 Betwudct Balilc, ar.d his fon Claudius, who had cfcaped 

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