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Jo AS loft no time, but removed and encamped at Tedda, 

 and fent Wooflieka to Michael with orders to return to Ti- 

 gre, and not to fee his face ; and, at the fame time, declared 

 Lubo governor of Begemder and Amhara. The Ras fcarce- 

 ly could be brought to fee Wooflieka ; but did. not deign 

 to give any further anfwer than this, " That the king 

 " fliould know, that the proper perfons to correfpond with 

 " him as Ras, upon the affairs of the kingdom, were the 

 " judges of the town, or of i;he palace ; not a flave like 

 " Wooflieka, whofe life, as well as that of all the Gallas in 

 " the king's prefence, was forfeited by the laws of the 

 " land. He cautioned him from appearing again in his 

 " prefence, for if he did, that he fliould furely die." 



The next day a meflage came from the king, by four 

 judges, forbidding the Ras again to drink of either the An- 

 grab or the Kahha, but to ftrike his tents and return to Ti- 

 gre upon pain of incurring his higheft difpleafure. — To 

 this Michael anfwered, " That, true it was, his province was 

 " Tigre, but that he was now governor of the whole realm; 

 " that he was an extraordinary officer, called to prevent the 

 " ruin of the country, becaufe, confefTedly, the king could 

 *' not do it ; that the reafon of his coming exifled to that 

 " day ; and he was very willing to fubmit it to the judges 

 " for their folemn opinion, whether the kingdom, at pre- 

 *' fent in the hands of the Galla, was not in more danger 

 *' from the power of thofe Galla than it was from the con- 

 *♦ ftitutional influence of Mariani Barca. He added, that he 

 " expedled the king fliould be ready to march againft Fafil, 

 " for which purpofe he was to decamp on the morrow." I he 

 king returned an abfolute rcfufal to march : The Ras there- 

 upon made proclamaiion for all the Galla, of every deno- 

 mination, 



