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chad at the palace ; but I faw the members of the council: 

 there, and expected he was coming. Inftead of this, the 

 large kettle-drum, or nagareet, called the lion, was carried to 

 the king's gate, which occafioned great speculation. But 

 prefently proclamation was made in thefe words, given me 

 by Tecla Mariam himfelf : — " Hear ! hear ! hear ! they that 

 pretend they do not hear this, will not be the laft punifhed 

 for diibbeying : — Whereas many diforderly and idle perfons 

 Have flocked to this capital for fome days pad, and brought 

 no proviiions for themfelves or others, and have frightened 

 the country people from coming to market, whereby all 

 degrees of men, in this capital, are threatened with famine, 

 and fcarcity is already begun ; this is, therefore, to give no- 

 tice, That if any fuch people, after twelve o'clock to-morrow, 

 be found in this city, or in the roads adjoining thereto, they 

 fhall be punifhed like rebels and robbers, and their fault, 

 not prefcribed for feven years," 



And, in about ten minutes afte wards, another proclama- 

 tion was made : — " The king orders four hundred Galla of 

 his troops to patrole the Itreets all the night, and difperfe 

 fummarily all forts of people that they iliall find gathered to- 

 gether; commands thirty horfe to patrole between DebraTzai 

 and Koila, thirty on the road to Woggora, and thirty on that to 

 Emfras, to protect our Subjects coming to market, and going 

 about their other lawful bufinefs : They that are wife will 

 keep themfelves well when they are fa" There was no need' 

 of a fecond proclamation. The monks were all wife, and 

 returned in an inftant every man to his home. The Galla- 

 were mentioned to terrify only, for they did not exift,. 

 Ozoro Either having cleared the palace of that nation ; but 

 ihe monks knew there would be found people in their place 



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