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fays, fourth fon of Michael; and it was in 17 14 this cata- 

 flrophe happened, fo that this will bring thefe fathers en- 

 trance into Nubia about the time of the murder of M. du 

 Roule : fo confiftent with every crime is fanaticifm and falfe 

 religion. 



The barbarous monks, gratified in the firft inftance, 

 would not be contented without extending their vengeance 

 to Abba Gregorius, the Abymnian prieft, the interpreter. 

 But David, who found upon trial that, in going to attend 

 th*e priefls in Walkayt, he had only obeyed the exprefs com- 

 mand of Ouftas, then his fovereign, abfolutely refufed to 

 fuffer him to be either tried or punifhed, but difmiffed him, 

 without further cenfure or queftion, to his native country. 



"While David was thus employed at Gondar, news were 

 brought to him that his brother BacufFa had left the Galla, 

 and was then in a fmall town in Begemder, called Wetan. 

 It was this prince who, together with fifty others of the 

 royal family, were let down from the mountain of Wechne, 

 upon Ouftas's fon being propofed, and he alone refufed 

 to return upon his brother's accemon to the throne. David 

 fent Azaleffi, Guebra Mehedin, and Badjerund Welled de 

 l'Oul, to Wetan, where they apprehended BacufFa by furprife, 

 and lodged him in the mountain of Wechne, after having 

 cut off a very fmall part of the tip of his nofe, which was 

 fcarccly difcernible when he came to the throne. 



Kafmati Georgis, had been baniihed to the mountain in 

 the reign of the late king, where he had contracted an inti- 

 mate friendship with David. He had alio married a fifter 

 of Ozoro Mamet, by whom Yafous had feveral children, par- 

 Vox, IL 4 E ticularly 



