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Angrab, till it joined the Kaliha, and Kafmati Gufho's camp, 

 were PowufTen and the reft of the confederate army ; fo 

 that by nine o'clock the town was completely invefted, as if 

 a wall had been built round it. The water being all in 

 poffefTion of the enemy, centinels were by them placed a- 

 long the banks of each river, with orders to fuffer every 

 townfman to fill fingle jars, fuch as one man or woman 

 could carry, and to break any fupernumerary jars, that 

 might be brought by way of fecuring a larger provifion*. 

 All the people of confequence who had property in and a- 

 "bout Gondar, who had fled to Fafil and to the provinces, 

 from fear of Ras Michael when he returned from Tigre, 

 had gone back upon Gufho's word, each man to his houfe; 

 Gondar was full of men in arms. In Gufho's and Ayabdar's 

 army, and depending on them, was the property of all 

 Gondar. Ras Woodage, Guflio's father, and brother 

 to Ayabdar, had been Ras in Yafous' time, till he died, 

 univerfally beloved and regretted; Ayto Engedan and Ay- 

 lo, fons of Kafmati Eflite, (by a fifter of king Yafous) had 

 the property of near one half of the town. Though Enge- 

 dan was prifoner, and Aylo had married Ras Michael's 

 daughter, they were, by intereft and inclination, united to 

 Guflio, and had ferved Michael only through fear, from at- 

 tachment to the king, fo that Guflio and Ayabdar were the 

 only citizens in whom the inhabitants of Gondar confided. 

 PowufTen, and the reft, were looked upon as free-booters in 

 their inclinations, at leaft by the townfmen ; very little bet- 

 ter than Michael, or his troops of Tigre. 



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* For extlnguifliing fire. 



