532 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER: 



While the hunting-match lailed, a conspiracy was form- 

 ed by Gueber Mo, his. two brothers, Palambaras, Hannes* 

 and feveral others, old officers belonging to the late king 

 Yafous, who faw that he intended, 1 one by one, to weed 

 them out of the way as foon as fafely he could, and that 

 the whole power and favour was at laft to fall into the 

 hands of the Iteghe, and her brothers Dermin and Paulus. 

 Accordingly one morning, the confpirators having fur- 

 rounded him while riding, one of them thruft him through 

 the body with a fword, and threw him from his mule up- 

 on the earth. They then laid his body upon a horfe, and* 

 with all poffible expedition, carried him to the houfe o£A- 

 zena Michael, where he arrived yet alive, but died imme- 

 diately upon being taken from the horfe. Badjerund Ou- 

 ftas, and fome others, of his father's old officers, who had 

 attached themfelves to him after his father's death; took 

 the body of the king and buried it in Quebran. 



As foon as this aflaflination -was known, the mailer of 

 the horfe, with the few troops that he could gather together; 

 came to the palace, and took a young fon of- Tecla Haima- 

 nout, aged only four years, whom he proclaimed king, and 

 the Iteghe, Malacotawit, regent of the kingdom. But Badje- 

 rund Ouftas, and thofe who had not been concerned in the 

 murder of either king; went ftraight to the mountain of 

 Wechne, and brought thence Tifilis, that is Theophilus, fon 

 to Hannes, and brother to the late king Yafous, whom they 

 crowned at Emfras, and called him, by his inauguration 

 name, Atferar Segued, 



TIFILIS,' 



