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the Mahometans to eat no other flefh but what had been 

 killed by Chriftians ; and gathered together the Catholic 

 books, which the Jefuits had translated into the Ethiopic 

 language, and burned them in a heap. Much of his atten- 

 tion was given to church matters, and, in regulating thefe, 

 he feems to have employed moft of his time. He depofed 

 the Abuna Chriftaduius, appointed by his father, and in 

 his place put the Abuna Sanuda. 



This laft meafure feems to have difpleafed his eldeft fon 

 Yafous, who fled from the palace one night, and pafled the 

 Nile ; and, though he was followed by Kafmati Aferata 

 Chriftos, he was not overtaken, but ftaid fome time in his 

 fitter's houfe, and then returned to Gondar at the requeft 

 of his father. 



A convocation of the clergy, the fecond in this reign, 

 was now held, and great heats and divifions followed a- 

 mong two orders of monks, thofe of Euilathius and thofe 

 of Debra Libanos. The king feems to have aflifted at all 

 thefe debates, and to have contented himfelf with holding 

 the balance in his hands without declaring for either party. 

 But thefe altercations, and difputes could not fatisfy the ac- 

 tive fpirit of the prince his fon, who again fled from his fa- 

 ther and from Gondar, but was overtaken at the river Ba- 

 fliiio, and brought back to the palace, where he found his 

 father ill. 



Hannes died the 19th of July, and was buried at Tedda, 



after having reigned 15 years. He feems, from the fcanty 



memorbls of his long reign, to have been a weak prince; 



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