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trtiil tome, 20,0.00 ounces of Tigre iron : mail crown you: 

 better; if more is wanted, I will bellow it upon your ene- 

 mies with pleafure till they are fatisfied ;" meaning the 

 iron balls with, which his foldiers loaded their muf-- 

 quets. 



After the coronation was over, the king paiTed the Ma- 

 reb, defiring to nnifli his campaign by the death of his com- 

 petitor Jacob ; but that impoitor knew too well the fuperi* 

 ority of his rival, and hid himfelf in the inmoft TccefTes, with- 

 out other attendants than a few goats, who furniihed him 

 with their ; milk, as well as their fociety. 



Socinios left the affair of the rebel Jacob' to be ended by 

 Amfala Chriftos, an officer of great prudence, whom he made 

 governor of Tigre; and, taking his brother Ras Sela Chriftos 

 along with him, returned to Coga*. Amfala Chriftos being 

 feized with a grievous fi.cknefs, faw how vain it was for him 

 to purfue the fuppreffion of a rebellion conducted by fuch 

 a head as this impoftor Jacob, and therefore fecretly applied 

 to two young men, Zara Johannes and Amha Georgis, bro- 

 thers, and fons of the Shum Welled Georgis, who had com- 

 mitted murder, and were outlawed by Socinios, and, keep- 

 ing hid in the mountains, had joined in fellowihip with the 

 impoftor Jacob. 



These, gained by the promife of pardon given them by 

 Amfala Chriftos, chofe an opportunity which their intimacy 

 gave them, and, falling upon Jacob unawares in his retire- 

 ment, 



Then, the metropolis upon the Lake Tzana. 



