THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 661' 



de rOul at their head, and received the young king Joaa 

 fj om the hands of the Iteghe his grandmother, and pro- 

 claimed him king, with the ufual formalities, without any 

 oppofition or tumult whatever. 



A NUMBER of promotions immediately followed ; but it 

 was obferved with great difcontcnt by many, that the Iteghe's 

 family and relations were grown now fo numerous, that 

 they were fufficient to occupy all the great offices of flatc 

 without the participation of any of the old families, which 

 were the llrength of the crown in former reigns ; and that 

 now no preferment was to be expedted unlefs through fomc 

 relation to the queen- mother. 



Welled Hawarayat, fon to Michael governor of Tigrc; 

 had married Ozoro Altafli, the queen's third daughter, al- 

 moil a child ; and long before that, Netcho of Tcherkin had 

 married Ozoro Eilher, likewife very young; and Kas Michael; 

 old as he was, had made known his pretenlions to Ozoro 

 Welleta Ifrael, the queen's fecond daughter, immediately 

 younger than Ozoro Eilher. Thefe propofals, from an old 

 man, had been received with great contempt and derifion 

 by Welleta Ifrael, and flie perfevered fo long in the derifion- 

 of Michael's courtiliip, that it left ilrong impreffions on the 

 hard heart of that old warrior, which lliewed themfelves: 

 after in very difagreeable confequences to that lady all the 

 time Michael was in power. 



The firll that broke the peace of this new reign v/as; 

 Nanna Georgis, chief of one of the clans of Agows o£ 

 Damot. Engaged in old feuds with the Galla on the other: 

 fide of the Nile, the natural enemies of^iis country, he could 



no.-';. 



