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but, perhaps, if the circumftances of the times were fully 

 known, he may have been a wife one. 



Y A S O U S I. 



From 1680 to 1704. 



^Brilliant Expedition of the King to Wechne — Varous ^Campaigns ctgainft 

 the Agows and Galla — Comet appears — Expedition againjl Zeegam 

 and the Eajlern Shangalla — Ponce? s Journey — Murafs EmbaJJy — «• 

 Du Route's Embajfy — Du Roule ajfajjinated at Sennaar — The King is 

 aflajfinated. 



YASOUS fucceeded his father Hannes with the approba* 

 tion of the whole kingdom. He had, as we have feen, 

 twice in Hannes's life-time abfconded from the palace ; 

 and this was interpreted as implying an impatience to reign* 

 But I rather think the caufe was a difference of manners, 

 his father being extremely bigotted, fordid, and covetous ; 

 for he never, in thofe elopements, pretended to make a par- 

 ty contrary to his father's intereft, nor fhewed the leaft in- 

 clination to give either the army or the people a favourable 

 impremon of himfelf, to the difadvantage of the king* 

 There was, befides, a difference in religious principles. Ya- 

 fous had a great predilection for the monks of Debra Li- 

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