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On the other hand, Adera Tacca Georgis, (the king's Fit- 

 Aurarisy and Guebra Wellcta Yafous, principal people in 

 Maitllia, and whom Fafil had put about the king, dellred leave 

 to retire to their own country, from which it is probable 

 they will never again return to Gondar, unlefs as ene- 

 mies. 



Although the king ftill obftinarely infilled that tlie Ras 

 ihould pay him his thoufand ounces of gold, and live 

 hundred mufquets, as a price for his being let at liberty, 

 this was refuted by Gu(ho, in terms that fhewed he was 

 not now, as formerly, afraid of the king's power. On ihe 

 other hand, the king proclaimed Kefla Yafous governor of 

 the province of Tigre, with the fame extent of command 

 as R.as Michael had enjoyed it ; and he was already there, 

 and had taken upon him the government of that province. 

 At the fame time the king fuperfeded GuHio, and deprived 

 him of his province of Amhara, which was given to his 

 nephew Ayfo Adigo, fon of Palambaras Durrie, a man of 

 very great intereft and property in the province; after 

 which he immediately left Gondar, and took his way thro' 

 Begemder ; but at the very entrance into Amhara, he was 

 defeated by a fon of Gulho w^ho w-as expecting him ; his 

 troops were difperfed, and his brother, Ayto Adereflbn, (the 

 man who loil Gufho's h'orfe at the battle of Tedda) wound- 

 ed and taken prifoner. 



There remained no longer any doubt that, as foon as 

 the rains were over, the former fcenes of bloodflied and 

 ,confufion were to be adted over again ; for, by appointing 

 Kefla Yafous to the government of Tigre, and Ayto Adigo 

 to that of Amhara, and the peaceable palfage given to this 



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