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Fortune feemed to have taken delight, from very earl}*'" 

 life, conftantly to traverfe the greatnefs and happinefs of; 

 this young lady. She was firft delUned to be married to-- 

 Joas, and the affair was near concluded, when the fatal dif- 

 covery, made at the battle of Azazo, that the king had fenD 

 his houfehold troops privately to fight for Fafil againft Mi-> 

 chael, prevented her marriage, and occafioned his death. 

 She was then deftined to old Hatze Hannes, Tecla Haima-t 

 nout's father : Michael, who found him incapable of being- 

 a king, judged him as incapabk of being a hufband to a 

 woman of the youth and charms of Welleta Selafle, and, 

 therefore, deprived him at once of his life, crown, and 

 bride. She was now not feventeen, and it was defigned flie 

 fhould be married to the prefent king ; Providence put a 

 flop to a union that was not agreeable to either party : fhe 

 died fome time after this, before the battle of Serbraxos ; 

 being ftrongly prefled to gratify the brutal inclinations of 

 the Ras her grandfather, whom, when fhe could not refill 

 or avoid, flie took poifon ; others faid it was given her by 

 Ozoro Efther from jealoufy, but this was certainly without 

 foundation. I faw her in her laft moments, but too late to 

 give her any affiftance ; and flie had told her women- fervants 

 and ilaves that fhe had taken arfenic, having no other way 

 to avoid com.mitting fo monftrous a crime as inceft with; 

 the murderer of her father. 



The rage that the intercellion of the daughter for her 

 faiher Guebra Denghel had put the Ras into, was feen in 

 the feverity of the fentcnce he pafl^ed upon the other 

 two criminals ; Kcfla Mariam's eyes were pulled out, Se- 

 baat Laab's eye-lids were cut oiF by the roots, and both of 

 vhem were expofcd in the market-place to the burning fun, 

 3- without 



