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feys, fourth fon of Michael; and it was in 17 14 this cata- 

 ftrophe happened, fo that this will hiing thefe fathers en- 

 trance into Nubia about the time of the murder of M. du 

 Roule : fo confident with ev^ry. crime is fanaticifm and falfe 

 religion. 



The barbarous monks, gratified in the firfl inflance, 

 "would not be contented without extending their vengeance 

 to Abba Gregorius, the AhyfTmian prieft, the interpreter. 

 But David, who found upon trial that, in going to attend 

 the priefts in Walkayt, he had only obeyed the exprefs ccm- 

 mand of Guftas, then his fovereign, abfolutely refufed to 

 fuffer him to be either tried or punilhed, but difmilTed him, 

 without.further cenfure or queftion, to his native country. 



While David was thus employed at Gondar, news were 

 'brought to him that his brother Bacuffa had left the Galla, 

 and was then in a fmall town in Begemder, called Wetan. 

 It was this prince who, together with fifty others of the 

 royal family, were let down from the mountain of Wcchne, 

 upon Ouftas's fon being propofed, and he alone refufed 

 to return upon his brother's accefTion to the throne. David 

 fent Azalefii, Guebra Mehcdin, and Badjerund Welled de 

 I'Oul, to Wetan, where they apprehended Bacuffa by furprife, 

 and lodged him in the mountain of Wechne, after having 

 cut off a very fmall part of the tip of his nofe, v/hich was 

 fcarcely difcernible when he came to the throne. 



Kafmati Georgis, had been banifhed to the mountain in 

 the reign of the late king, where he had contra(5led an inti- 

 mate friendfhip with David. He had alfo married a fifter 

 of Ozoro Mamet, liy whom Yafous had fcveral children, par- 



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