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clared Tenfa Mammo a rebel and outlaw, and confifcated 

 his eflate to the king's ufc. 



At Ibaba he met Fit-Auraris Tamba, with a large body 

 of Damots and Djawi ; then he decamped from Ibaba, and, 

 at the bridge over the Nile, was met by Azage Georgis, 

 with all Maitflia, Elmana, and Denfa following, and thence 

 proceeded to Waira, where he fet ArkilHdas at liberty. This 

 officer, after diftinguifhing himfelf before all others in the 

 king's defence, had been taken prifoner by Tenfa Mammo, 

 and fent thither. Advancing into Foggora, with a large army, 

 he halted at Gilda, and fcnt fome foldiers on the road to 

 Gondar, to fee if he could apprehend any travellers, efpccial- 

 ly thofe going or coming to or from market. But, after three 

 days waiting on the road, the foldiers returned without 

 any perfon or intelligence, by which he judged the town 

 was already in great ftraits. In two days after, he advanced 

 to Wainarab, and thence he fcnt his Fit-Auraris forward 

 to fet a houfe at Tedda on fire, to fliew to the king at Gon- 

 dar that he was thus far advanced to his affiftance. This bar- 

 barous cuftom of burning a houfe wherever an army en- 

 camps, though but for an hour, is invariably pradifed, as a 

 iignal by armies, throughout all Abyffinia. 



At this time there was a treaty begun between the king 

 and Tenfa Mammo. The rebels, weary of the little advan- 

 tage they had gained, and hearing Waragna was about to 

 march againft them, offered the queen her own terms, 

 provided flie publifhed-ti general amnefty, and that each man 

 fliould be allowed to keep the ports he had before the re- 

 bellion. The queen, weary and terrified with war, readily, 

 agreed to this propofal ; and this facility, inltead of accelera- 

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