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immediately after which, Dermin thruft him through With 

 a fword. They attempted afterwards to hum the body, in 

 order. to avoid the ill-will the fight of j it muft occafion : In 

 this, however, they were, prevented by the priefts of the 

 ifland and the neighbouring nobility, who took pofleflioh 

 of the body, warned it, and performed all the rites of fepul- 

 ture, then carried it in a kind of triumph, with every mark 

 of magnificence due to the burial of a king, interring it in 

 the fmall ifland of Mitraha, where lay the body of all his 

 anceftors, and where I have feen ,the body of this king ftili 

 entire, . 



Nor did the prince his foil, Tecla Haimanout, now king, 

 difcourage the people in the refpect they voluntarily paid 

 to his father. On the contrary, that parricide himfelf mewl- 

 ed every outward mark of duty, to the which inwardly his 

 heart had been long a Granger, ; 



Poncet, who faw this king, gives this character of him-: : 

 He fays he was a. man very fond of war, but averfe to the 

 fhedding of blood. However this may appear a contradic- 

 tion, or faid for the fake of the antithelis, it really was the 

 true character of this prince, who* fond of war, and in the 

 perpetual career of victory, did, bypulhing his conquefls as . 

 far as they could go, inevitably occalion the fpilling of much 

 blood. Yet, when his army was not in the field, though he 

 detected a multitude of confpiraeies among priefts and other 

 people at home, whofe lives in confequence were forfeited 

 to the law, he very rarely, either from his own motives, or 

 the perfuafion of others, could be induced to inflict capital [ 

 punilliments though often ftrongly provoked to it. 



Upon, 



