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tie the brave monk, Andreas % much advanced in years, was, 

 flain, behaving with the greateft gallantry, unwilling to fur- 

 vive the ruin, of his country. 



The Moors now found it unneceiTary to keep together; 

 an army. They divided into fmall parties, that they might/ 

 more effectually and fpeedily ruin the country. Part o£ 

 Gragne's army was detached, to burn Axum ; the other un- 

 der Simeon continued in Amhara to watch the king's mo-, 

 tions ; and, while he attempted to relieve Axum, difperfed) 

 his army, on which the town was burnt, and with it many 

 of the richefl churches in Abyffinia, Hallelujah, Banquol,. 

 Gafo, Debra Kerbe, and many others. And, on the 7th of 

 April, Saul, fon of Tesfo Yafous, fought another detachment; 

 of the Mooriih army, and was cut to pieces. 



The 28th year of his reign, 1536, the king crone d the 

 Tacazze, and had many difaftrous encounters with the peo- 

 pie of Sire and Serawe. Tesfo 1'Oul, who commanded in 

 this latter province for the king, furprifed a Turkifh party 

 under Adli, whom he flew, and met with the fame fate, 

 himfelf from Abbas, Mooriih. governor of Serawe, when a? 

 great many of the principal people of that province were there, 

 flain. Galila, a large ifland in the lake Tzana, was plundered,, 

 and the convent upon it burnt. It was one of the principal- 

 places where the Abyilinians hid. their treafure, and a great 

 booty was found there. 



In the following year, Gragne, in a-meflagereprefented: 

 to him, that he might fee he was fighting againfl God, ex- 

 horting' 



* It was he who, as we have feen, flew the Moor MafTudv in Angle combat in the beginmns 



01" -this reign, 



