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party. Some part of the town was on fire every night ; no- 

 body knew for what reafon, nor what was the quarter that 

 was next to be burnt. 



In the mean time, Azage Georgis arrived in the country 

 of the Agows at Bafil Bet, where Waragna was, and dehver- 

 ed him the king's order, that he fhould make all poffible 

 hafte to his alTiftance at Gondar* with as large an army as 

 he could fuddenly bring ; and thefe difpatches conferred 

 upon him at the fame time, as a mark of favour, the poll 

 of Ibaba Azage, or governor of Ibaba, together with F.lma- 

 na and Denfa, two diftrids inhabited by Galla, fubjedts to 

 the king, which pofts were then held by Tenfa Mammo, and 

 forfeited by his rebellion. 



The next morning Waragna left his head-quarters at 

 Bafil Bet ; thence he marched to Gumbali, and thence to 

 Sima. At Sima he heard, that, the day before, ic had been 

 proclaimed at Ibaba, by orders of Tenfa Mammo, that Ya- 

 fous was dead, and Hezekias was now king ; upon this 

 intelligence he marched from Sima, and, while it was yet 

 early in the day, he came to Ibaba. 



The firft inquiry was concerning the Shum (or chief of 

 the town) left there by Tenfa Mammo ; and this man, co- 

 ming readily to him to receive his commands, and offer 

 him any fervice in }iis power, was afked by whofe orders 

 the proclamation of Hezekias was made ? Being anfwered, 

 by Tenfa Mammo's, he direded the Shum and his two fons 

 to be hanged on three feparate trees in the middle of the 

 town ; the Shum with the nagareet round his neck which 

 had ferved in the proclamation of Hezekias ; he then de- 

 , clared 



