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After the death of her hufband, Bacufla, flie is faid to 

 have defccnded to a variety of attachments of fliort duration. 

 She married a man of quality, Kafmati Netcho of Kuara, by 

 whom fhe had three daughters. The firll was Ozoro Either, 

 of whom I fhall often fpeak, being, next to her mother, the 

 greateft friend I had in Abyffinia, and one who had the moll 

 frequent opportunities of being fo. She was married, in very 

 early life, to Kafmati Netcho of Tchcrkin, a man of great 

 perfonal quaUties, and who had a very large territory, reach- 

 ing down to the Pagan blacks, or Troglodytes, called Shan* 

 galla. 



This marriage was of very (hort duration. Netcho left 

 one fon,Ayto Confu, my very great and firm, though young 

 friend, who likewife inherited his father's fortune and vir- 

 tues. She was afterwards married to Ayo Mariam Barea, 

 (excepting Ras Michael) reputed the bell general in Abylli- 

 Bia, but who died before I came into the country. By him 

 fhe had one fon and a daughter, infants. Lallly, fhe was 

 married to Ras Michael, by whom fhe had two fons, the 

 favourites of Michael's old age. Rullic and cruel as that 

 eld tyrant was, bred up in blood, and delighting in it, flie go- 

 verned him defpotically, from the day of her marriage, yet 

 fo prudently, as to excite the envy of no one, excepting the 

 murderers tTf her hufband Mariam Barea, who, luckily, were 

 alfo the conftitutional enemies of her country. 



The fccond daughter of the Iteghe was Ozoro Welleta If- 

 ?ael, the moH beautiful woman in Abyffinia, with whom I 

 had very little acquaintance, fhe being at conflant war with 

 Ras Michael. She had married a nobleman of the firil con- 

 iideration, to whom half of the large and rich province of. 



Gojam. 



