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ftanding the goodnefs of his underilanding, and many a<5Vs, 

 of wifdom and juftice, he is confidered as a bloody, mer- 

 cilefs tyrant, and his memory regarded with the greateft. 

 tjeteftation. 



On the firft news of the infurredion of the princes on- 

 "Wechne, Kafmati Amha Yafous, governor of Begemder,. 

 marched with his whole force* and encamped under the 

 mountain. He then received BacufFa as king, having re-, 

 fcued him from the hands of his relations ; and, in order to 

 obviate, as much as poffible, any future trouble, he obliged; 

 the different branches of the royal family to a reconciliation^ 

 with each other, making BacufFa, on the one fide, fwear that 

 he was not to remember nor revenge any injury or afFront^ 

 received upon the mountain ; and them on the mountain: 

 fwear alfo, that they would forget all old difagreements,. 

 confider BacufFa as their king, and not create him any, 

 trouble in his reign by efcapes, or other rebellious prac-- 

 tices. 



As it was then night, BacufFa ftaid in the houfe of. 

 Azage AiFarat, and the next morning came to Serbraxos,, 

 whence he fent to the monks of Tedda to meet him there... 

 From.Tedda he proceeded to Gondar, where he was met 

 by the Abuna and Itchegue amidft the acclamations of. a. 

 prodigious number of people. 



BACUFFA^. 



