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The king affented to this, and Amdo was accordingly de- 

 livered up ; and, being convicted of rebellion and murder, 

 he was fentenced to be nailed to a crofs, and to remain there 

 till he died. But the terrible cries and groans which he 

 made while they were fixing him to the crofs, fo much 

 fhocked the ears of the king, that he ordered him to be 

 taken down, and his head ftruck off with an ax, which 

 was executed in the mid ft of the camp. 



Socinios after this retired to Dancaz, and ordered Kefla 

 governor of Gojam, and Jonael his mailer of the houfehold, 

 to march fuddenly and furprife Belaya, a country belonging 

 to the Gongas and Guba, Pagan nations, on whom, every 

 year, he made w r ar for the fake of taking flaves for the ufe 

 pf the palace, Thefe two officers, with a large body, moft- 

 ly horfe, fell unawares upon the favages at Belaya, flaying 

 part, and bringing away their children. But not content 

 with doing this, they likewife attacked the two diftricts of 

 Agows, Dengui and Sankara, then in peace with the king, 

 and drove away an immenfe number of cattle, which the 

 king no fooner heard, than he ordered a ftrict fearch to be 

 made, and the whole cattle belonging to the Agows to be 

 gathered together, and reftored to their refpeclive owners ; 

 a piece of juftice which foftened the hearts of this people 

 more than all the feverities that had been hitherto ufed ; 

 and the good effects of which were foon after feen upon 

 the Agows, though it produced fomcthing very different 

 in the conduct of Jonael. 



The king this year, 16 i6,left his capital at the ufual time,in 

 the month of November, and ordered his whole houfehold 

 to attend him. His intention was againft the Galla on the 



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