4 o4 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



mediately to Fremona, under the conduct of four people of the 

 firft confideration, Tecla Georgis, brother of Keba Chriflos, 

 Tecla Saluce, one of the principal perfons in Tigre, and two 

 Azages, men of great dignity at court. Thefe were joined 

 by a party of foldiers belonging to Claudius,, brother of the 

 king, fuppofed to have been in the confpiracy with Sela 

 Chriftos his uncle, to fupplant his brother Facilidas by the 

 help of the Jefuits and Portuguefe troops from India. But as 

 foon as the patriarch had fallen into difgrace, and Sela Chri- 

 ftos loll his life, that prince returned to the church of Alex- 

 andria, as did all the other fons of Socinios ; after which 9> 

 Claudius feized to his ownufe all the lands and effects that: 

 he found in Gojam, and was now by the king made gover- 

 nor of Begemder. Under this efcort the patriarch and his 

 company arrived at Fremona in the end of April 1633, after 

 having been often robbed and ill-treated by the way, the: 

 guards that were given to defend them conniving with the: 

 banditti that came to rob them. 



However flrictly the fathers obferved the precepts of 

 fcripture on other occafions, in this they did not follow the 

 line of conduct prescribed by our Saviour — " And whofo- 

 " ever mall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you; 

 " depart out of that houfe or city, fhake off the dull of your 

 u feet." They were not meep that went patiently and dumb 

 to the flaughter ; and, if their hearts, as they fay, were full 

 of love and charity to Abyffinia, it was flrangely accompanied 

 with the refolution they had taken to fend Jerome Lobo, 

 the moll famous, becaufe the moll bigotted Jefuit of the 

 whole band, firft to the viceroy of India, and then to Spain> 

 to folicit an army and fleet which were to lay all this king- 

 dom in blood. 



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