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Nanna Georgis, who cliicOy was aimed at as tlic au- 

 thor of this rcvok, eicapcd, with groat dimcuUy, wounded, 

 from the field ; and the feiul which had long fubfifted be- 

 tween Waragna's family and the race of the Agows, recei- 

 ved great addition that day, and came down to tlicir poUcri- 

 ty, as wc Ihall foon fee by what happened in WaragnaV. 

 fon's time at the bloody and fatal battle of Banja. 



The next affair that called the attention of governmenr, 

 was a complaint brought by the monks of Magwena, a 

 ridge of rocks of but fmall extent not far from Tcherkin, 

 the ertatc of Kafmati Nctcho. Thefe mountains, for a great 

 part of tlie year, alnioil calcined under a burning fun, have, 

 in fcveral months, violent and copious Ihowers of rain, 

 which, received in vaft caves and hollows of the mountain, 

 and out of the reach of evaporation, are means of creating 

 and maintaining all forts of verdure and all fcenes of plea- 

 furc, in the hot fealbn of the year, when the rains do not fall 

 elfewhere ; and as the rocks have a coniiderable elevation 

 above the level of the plain, they are at no feafon infected 

 with thofe feveriQi difordcrs that lay the low country wade, 



Netcho was a m^an of pleafure, and he thought, fmce 

 the monks, by retiring to rocks and dcferts, meant thereby 

 to fubjecSl themfelves to hardlhip and mortification, that 

 thefe deJightful and flowery fcenes, the groves of Mafwena, 

 were much more fuited to the enjoyment of happinefs with . 

 the young and beautiful Ozoro Efther, than for any fct of 

 men, who by their aufterities were at conflant war with 

 the flcfh. Upon thefe principles, which it would be very 

 difficult for the monks themi'elves to refute, he took pof-. 

 feffion of the mQuntain.Magvyena, and of, thole bowers 



that. 



