THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 695 



I HAVE often faid, the Mofaical law, or law of retaliation, 

 is conilantly obferved over all Abyilinia as the criminal law 

 of the country, fo that, when any perfon is flain wrongfully 

 by another, it does not belong to the king to punifh that 

 oflfence, but the judges deliver the offender to the nearcll 

 relation of the party murdered, who has the full power of 

 putting him to death, felling him to ilavery, or pardoning 

 him without any fatisfadlion. 



LuBO faw the king relenting, and that the greateft crime,, 

 that of rebellion, was already forgiven. He flood up, there- 

 fore, and, in violent rage, laid claim to Mariam Barea as the 

 murderer of his brother : the king Hill faying nothing, he 

 and his other Galla hurried Mariam Barea to liis tent, where 

 he was killed, according to report, with fundry circumftan- 

 ces of private cruelty, afterwards looked upon as great ag- 

 gravations. Lubo, with his own hand, is faid to have cut 

 his throat in the manner they kill llieep. His body was af- 

 terwards disfigured with many wounds, and his head feve- 

 red and carried to Michael, who forbade uncovering it in 

 his tent. It was then fent to Brulhe's family in theij own 

 country, as a proof of the fatisfadlion his friends had ob- 

 tained; and tliis gave more tiniverfal umbrage than did 

 even the cruelty of the execution. 



Several officers of the king's army, feeing the "bloody- 

 intentions of the Galla, advifed PowufTcn, and the eleven 

 other officers that were taken prifoners, to make the beft 

 «>fe of the prefent opportunity, and fly to the tent of Mi- 

 ehaeP and implore his protedlion. This they moft will- 

 ingly did, with the connivance of Wooflicka, who had 

 beea intrulled with the care of them, and. Lubo havings 



t finilhed: 



