u8 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



treat which would not have been unworthy of the hero 

 whofe name he bore. 



The king, in his return to Shoa, left his troops, which 

 was the northern army, in the northern provinces, as he 

 paflfed ; fo that he came to Shoa with a very fmall retinue, 

 hearing that Za Saluce had gone to Amhara. This traitor, 

 however, had left his creatures behind him, after inftruct- 

 ing them what they were to do. Accordingly, the fecond 

 day after Ifcander's arrival in Tegulat, the capital of Shoa, 

 they fet upon him, during the night, in a fmall houfe in 

 Aylo Meidan, and murdered him while he was fleeping. 

 They concealed his body for fome days in a mill, but Taka 

 Chriftos, and fome others of the king's friends, took up the 

 corpfe and expofed it to the people, who, with one accord, 

 proclaimed Andreas, fon of Ifcander, king ; and Za Saluce 

 and his adherents, traitors. 



In the mean time, Za Saluce, far from finding the encou- 

 ragement he expected in Amhara, was, upon his firil ap- 

 pearance, fet upon by the nobility of that province ; and, 

 being deferted by his troops, he was taken prifoner ; his 

 eyes were put out, and, being mounted on an afs, he was 

 carried amidft the curfes of the people through the pro- 

 vinces of Amhara and Shoa. 



Iscander was fucceeded by his fon Andreas, or Amda 

 Sion, an infant, who reigned feven months only. 



A wonderful confufion feems to be introduced at this 



time into hiftory, by the Portuguefe writers. Ifcander 



is faid to die in the 1490. He began, as they fay, to reign 



4 in 



