THE SOURCE OF THE NfLE. fcg 



©ojam belonged, by whom fhe had Aylo, one of the Jar* 

 geft men that! ever faw, the only particular remarkable in 

 Him* 



The third was Ozoro Altam, married to Welled Ha waryat, 

 Ras Michael's fon, by whom ihehad three children, two fons 

 and one daughter. One of them died of the fmall-pox foon 

 after my arrival at Gondar, as did his father alfo ; the other 

 fon and daughter happily recovered. 



Bacuffa had provided fumciently for the fecurity of 'his*, 

 provinces, by placing tried and veteran officers in his govern- 

 ments. Elias, indeed, was Ras and Betwudet atjGondar, and 

 he was fufpected of wiihes contrary to his allegiance ; but 

 far before any, in the confidence of the late king, was War- 

 agna Shalaka, that is, colonel o£a regiment of Djawi Galla^. 

 with which he -defended the provinces of Damot and Agow 

 againfl his countrymen on the other fide of the Nile ; for 

 he was a Galla of that nation himfelf, and his. name was* 

 Ufho, which fignifies a dog. But it was more by his inter- 

 eft, which he preferved with thofe people, than by his arms,, 

 that he kept thofe barbarians from wailing that country. 



The reader vvilleafily remember the firft occafion of hi&; 

 coming to Gondar was when Bacuffa faw him wafhing his 

 clothes in a pool of water ; and from the reproof, and his* 

 behaviour to the king on that occafion, as wellas the duty 

 and implicit obedience he paid to his commands afterwards,, 

 he was called Waragna, by way of contradiction, that wordi 

 fignifying a fturdy rebel, or one that Hands up in defiance of; 

 the. king,, That name became. much- more famous after- 

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