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treafon towards him ; that, inflead of keeping their word,,, 

 they had left him to engage the King and the Ras's whole 

 force at a time when they knew the greateft part of his 

 Galla troops were retired to the other fide of the Nile, and 

 could be affembled with difficulty : That if the Ras by 

 chance had crofTed at Delakus, as Kefla Yafous had done, in- 

 Head of embarramng his army among the rivers of Mait- 

 fha, and croffing the Nile at that moll dangerous place near 

 Amlac-Ohha, (a paffage never before attempted in the rainy 

 feafon) the confequence would have been, that he mull have 

 either fought at great difadvantage with an inferior army 

 againft the Ras, or have retired to Metchakel, leaving his 

 whole country to the mercy of his enemies. Fafil decla- 

 red his refolution never again to appear in arms againft the 

 king, but that he would hold his government under him, 

 and pay the accuftomed taxes punctually : he promifed al- 

 io, that he would renounce all manner of connection with 

 Gufho and Powuffen, as he had already done, and he would 

 take the field againft them next feafon with his whole force, 

 whenever the king ordered him. The mellengers conclu- 

 ded, with deliring the Ras to give Fafil his grand-daughter, 

 Welle ta Selafie, in marriage, and that he would then come 

 to Gondar without diftruft. 



At the audience they had of the king the fame night,, 

 they added, That Fafil could not truft Ras Michael, he broke 

 his word fo often, and had fo many refervations and eva-. 

 lions in his promifes. 



The Ras, though he did not believe all this, made no dif- 

 ficulty in agreeing to every thing that they defired. He 

 promifed the grand- daughter; and, as an earneft of his be- 

 lieving 



