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The prefents fenttoBseda Mariam fromDancaii did not 

 make a great figure when compared with thofe of Adel. 

 They confided of one horfe, a mule,, a. Ihield of elephant's 

 hide, a poifoned lance, two fwords, and fome dates. Poor 

 asthefe prefents were, they were much more reflected than 

 thofe of Adel, becaufe they came from a loyal heart ; while 

 the others were from a nation difting.uifhed every year by 

 fome premeditated action of treachery and bloodfhcd. The 

 king, having firft fent for the Abuna, Imaranha Chriftos,. 

 and called the ambafladors of Dancali and Adel into his pre- 

 fence, declared to them, that neither of thefe dates was 

 to be the fcene of war, but that he was inftantly to march 

 againft the Dobas *,. whofe conflant inroads into his country, 

 and repeated cruelties, he was refolved no longer to fuflfer. 

 He required the ambafladors to warn their mailers to keep 

 a Uriel; neutrality, otherwife they would be infallibly invol- 

 ved in the fame calamities with that nation, 



Lent being now near, the king returned to Ifras, there to: 

 keep his fall, and diftributed his horfe on the fide of Amba* 

 fanet, having fent orders to the governor of Amhara to join* 

 him immediately, who was then at Salamat befieging a 

 party of rebels upon Mount Gehud, which lignifies the 

 Mountain of Manifijlatimi. It was the intention of the king,, 

 that the troops of Amhara, Angot, and Tigre fhould prefs 

 upon the enemy from the high country, while he with his 

 own troops (chiefly horfe) fhould cut off their retreat to the 

 plains of fait ; and it was here that the king of Dancali was- 

 afraid, that they would interfere with his frefh water. 



This: 



* A race of very barbarous people, all fhepherds; ha,ving great fubfknee, and much iefero^ 

 blingthe nations of Galla. They are Pagans... 



