6i6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



The judges and all the officers being aflembled in the pre- 

 fence-chamber, where the king fits on his throne, (for in the 

 council-chamber he fits in a kind of cage, or ciofe balcony) 

 where no part of him is difcovered, Sarach Mafferi Mammo, 

 whofe office it was, ftood up with the Kees Hatze, or king's 

 almoner ; when this laft had anointed him with oil, 

 Mammo placed the crown upon his head ; upon which the 

 whole aflembly, his mother only excepted, fell down and 

 paid him homage ; and at his inauguration betook the name 

 of Adiam Segued. 



On a feparate throne, on his right hand, fat the queen- 

 mother. She, too, was crowned, though not anointed ; but 

 the fame homage was performed to her that had been done to 

 the king, who fat on the throne with his head covered ; nor 

 did the Abuna interfere, nor was his attendance judged any 

 part of the ceremony. 



The firll feeds of difcontent had been fown in Damot, 

 where a party of rebels had attacked Kafmati Cambi in the 

 night, cut moll of his army to pieces, and obliged Shalaka 

 Job to fly into Gojam, and then return in hafte to Gondar. 



The king "found no better remedy againft this rebellion 

 than to appoint Kafmati Waragna governor of Damot, and 

 Sanuda guardian of Wechne, with orders to take with him 

 a fon of the late Ouflas the ufurper, and confine him with 

 the king's fons upon that mountain. At the fame time he 

 appointed Ayo governor of Bcgemdcr ; both thefe prefer- 

 ments being much to the fatisfadion of the whole natior.. 

 Waragna, knowing the ncccilities of his province, marched 

 from Gondar with what forces he could colled, and took 

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