THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 



3S 



In the morning, therefore, of the 3d of November, with- 

 out attempting further difcuffion, proclamation was made 

 that Fafil was Ras and Betwudet, governor of Damot, Mait- 

 flia, and Agow, and had the difpofal of all places under the 

 king throughout the empire ; declaring alfo, that all ap- 

 pointments that had been made by the heghe or himfelf, in 

 Fafd's abfence, were null and void, to be again filled up by 

 Fafil only. Socinios, however, foon found that he had a 

 different fpirit to manage than that of Woodage Afahel. 

 Fafil took him at his word, accepted of the appointment, be- 

 gan immediately toexercife his pow^r, and the very firft day 

 he gave the poft of Cantiba, that is, governor of Dembea, 

 to Ayto Engedan, nephew to the queen-mother, and fon to 

 Kafmati Eflite, whom he himfelf had depofed, murdered, 

 and fuccceded in the government of Damot and Maitfha ; 

 and Selaffe Barea, brother to Ayto Aylo, he made Palamba- 

 ras. Thefe appointments juft planted the king in the diffi- 

 culty that was intended ; for the places had been given to 

 Kafmati Sanuda, as a recompence for refigning the- pofts of 

 Ras and Betwudet, which were now conferred upon Fafil ; 

 and Sanuda,- whom Socinios believed his only friend, and 

 the perfon that raifed him to the throne, was now left def- 

 titute of all employment whatever, by an adlof feeming in- 

 gratitude flowing from the king alone. 



The next day Fafil, purfuing the fame line of Gonduc51:j 

 appointed Adera Tacca Georgis, a creature of his own. Fit- 

 Auraris to the king. None of thefe preferments Socinios 

 could be brought to comply with ; fo that when thefe no- 

 blemen came to do homage for their refpeftive places, So- 

 cmios abfolutelyrefufed to receive them, or difplace Kafma- 

 ti Sanuda. This involved the king in ftill greater difficult 



