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Handing the goodnefs of his understandings and many acts 

 ©f wifdom and juftice, he is confidered as a bloody, mer- 

 cilefs tyrant, and his memory regarded with the greateffc 

 deteffatiom 



On tile firft news of the infurrectibn of the princes on^ 

 Wechne, Kafmati Amha Yafous, governor of Begemder, 

 marched with his whole force and encamped: under the 

 mountain. He then received BacufTa as king, having re* 

 fcued him from the hands of his relations ; and, in order to 

 obviate, as much as pollible, any future trouble, he obliged 

 the different branches of the royal family to a reconciliation 

 with each other, making Bacuffa, on the one fide, fwear that 

 he was not to remember nor revenge any injury or affront 

 received upon the mountain; and them on the mountain; 

 fwear alfo, that they would forget all old difagreements,, 

 confider Bacuffa as their king, and not create him any 

 trouble in his reign. by efcapes, or other rebellious prac-- 

 tices.. 



As it was then night, Bacuffa {laid in the houfe of 

 Azage Affarat, and the next morning came to Serbraxos^ 

 whence he fent to the monks of Tedda to meet him there,. 

 From Tedda he proceeded to Gondar, where he was met: 

 by the Abuna and Itchegue amidft the acclamations of Jfe 

 prodigious number of people, . 



BACUFFA'i 



