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prefents (feldom lefs than two years rent of the province) 

 are given, about one half to the king, the other among his 

 courtiers. There was, at this period, a Moorifh woman of 

 quality in court, called the queen of Zeyla. She had been 

 brought to the palace with a view that the king mould marry 

 her, but he difliking her for the length, as is faid, or fome 

 other defect, in her foreteeth, had married her to a noble- 

 man. 



This injury had funk very deep in the breaft of the 

 queen of Zeyla, though Ihe was only nominally fo, having 

 been expelled from her kingdom before her coming into 

 Abyflinia. But it happened that me was filler to Mihico 

 fon of Mahomet, chief of Gadai, whom me earneftly per- 

 fuaded to flay at home, and ihe fucceeded fo far, as not on- 

 ly to prevail upon him to be abfent, but alfo to withdraw 

 himfelf entirely from his allegiance. 



At this very time, the king was informed by a faithful 

 fervant, a nobleman of Hadea, that the chief of Gadai had 

 long been meditating mifchief, and endeavouring to prevail 

 with the king of Adel to march with his army, while great 

 part of the principal people of Hadea, whom he had fedu- 

 ced, were to fall, on the oppofite lide, upon Dawaro and 

 Bali. 



The king, however, received certain accounts from A- 

 del, that all was quiet there ; and inquiring who of his Moor* 

 ifh fervants were of the conspiracy in Hadea, he found 

 them to be Goodalu, Alarea, Ditho, Hybo, Ganze, Saag, Gi- 

 dibo, Kibben, Gugule, and Haleb. As there were Hill for- 

 ces enough in the province to refill this confederacy, the 

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