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and, the cafe being referred to the judges next day, it was 

 found unanimoufly in council, that Ras Michael was in the 

 right, and that Fafd was guilty of rebellion; A proclama- 

 tion in confequence was made at the palace- gate, fuperfe- 

 - ding Fafil in his government of Damot^ and in every other 

 office which he held under the king, and appointing Boro 

 de Gago in his place, a man of great intcreft in Daraot and 

 Gojam, and with the Galla on both fides of the Nile, and 

 married to a fifter of Kafmati tfhte's, . by another mother,, 

 ©therwife a man of fmall capacity. 



Fas iL, after a long and private audience of the king in 

 the night, decamped early in the morning with his army, 

 and fat down at Azazo, the high road between Daniot and 

 Gondar, and there he intercepted all the proviiions coming-, 

 from the fouthward to the capital. 



It happened that the houfe in Gondar, where Ras Mi-^ 

 chael lived, was but a fmall diilanee from the palace, a 

 window of whicli opened fo direi5lly into it, that Michael, 

 v/hen fitting in judgment, could be diftindly feen from 

 thence. One day, when moft of his fervants had left him, a 

 fhot was fired into the room from this window of the pa- 

 lace, which, though it miffed Michael, wounded a dwarf, 

 who was ftanding before him fanning the flies from off his 

 face, fo gricvoufly, that the page fell and expired at the foot 

 of his mailer. This was confidcred as the beginning of the 

 hoililities. Nobody knew from whofe hand the fliot came; 

 but the window from which it was aimed fufficicnrly fhew- 

 ed, that if it was not by direction, itmufl at lead have been 

 fired with the knowledge of the king. 



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