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The king was very much exafperated at this mefTage, 

 He told them, however bad Benero might have been, he 

 confidered his murder as an infult done to himfelf, and had*, 

 therefore, difpatched Muftapha Bafha with fome troops, and 

 given command to all the Mahometans in Narea to aflift him, 

 and to inquire into the death of Benero, and the merit of his 

 fucceffor. 



At the fame time, the Galla made an inroad into Begem- 

 der; and Welled Hawaryat, aflembling what troops he could, 

 in hafte, to Hop the defolation of that province, and having 

 come in fight of the enemy, he was forfaken by his army, 

 and flam, together with the Cantiba of Dembea, Amdo, 

 Und Nile Wed Ageeb prince of. the Arabs, after fighting 

 manfully for the king. Socinios, upon the arrival of this 

 news, gave himfelf up to immoderate forrow ; not fo much 

 for the lofs of his army which had mifbehaved, as for the 

 death of Welled Hawaryat his favourite fon, and Amdo and: 

 Nile, the two bell officers in his army* . 



It will- now- be neeefTary that we look back a little to the 

 ftate of religious affairs in Abyilinia, which began from; 

 this time to have influence in every, meafure, and greatly 

 to promote the troubles of that empire ; though they were 

 by no means their only caufe, as fome have faid, with a 

 view to throw greater odium upon the Jefuits, who furely 

 have enough to anfwer for, without inflaming the account 

 by any exaggeration,. 



¥ aez,_ in the courfe of building the palace at Gorgoraj. 

 tiad deservedly aftoniihed. the whole kingdom by a difplay. 

 of his univerfal genius and capacity. If he was afliduous;. 



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