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perfons, alinoll as fqon as they were uttered, nothing fofi 

 tened. 



The confequences of the marriage of Ozoro Efther were 

 very foon feen in the inveterate and determined hatred againft 

 the Galla. Efther, who could not fave Mariam Barea, facri- 

 :6ccd herfelf that fhe might avenge his death, and Hve to 

 fee the lofs of her hufband expiated by numberlefs heca- 

 tombs of his enemies and murderers. Mild, gentle, and 

 compaflionate as, from my own knowledge, flie certain- 

 ly was, her nature was totally changed when Ihe caft back 

 her eyes upon the fufferings of her hufband ; nor could 

 flie be ever fatiated with vengeance for thofe fuiFerings, 

 but conftantly ftimulated Ras Michael, of himfelf much in- 

 clined to bloodflied, to extirpate, by every poilible means, 

 that odious nation of Galla, by whom fhe had fallen from, 

 ail her hopes of happinefs, 



Fasil, as being a Galla, the firft man that broke thro' the 

 horfe of Bcgemder, and wounded and put to flight her huf? 

 band Mariam Barea, was in confequence among the black 

 lift of her enemies. Fafil, too, had murdered Kafmati Eflite, 

 who was her favourite uncle, faft friend to Mariam Barea, 

 and the man that had promoted her marriage v/ith liim. 



The great credit of Fafd with the king had now given 

 Ras Michael violent jealoufy. Thefe caufes of hatred accu- 

 mulated every day, fo that Michael had already formed a 

 relbkuion to deftroy Fafil, even though the king fliould 

 perifh with him,. In thefe fentiments, too, was Guflio of 

 Amhara, a man of great pcrfonal merit, of whofe father, Ras 

 "\\'wdage, we have already fpoken, who had filled fucceflive- 



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