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The judges and all the officers being afTembled in the pre- 

 fence-chamber, where the king fits on his throne, (for in the 

 council-chamber he fits in a kind of cage, or clofe balcony) 

 where no part of him is difcovered, Sarach Mafleri Mammo, 

 whofe office it was, flood up with the Kees Hatze, or king's 

 almoner ; when this laft had anointed him with oil, 

 Mammo placed the crown upon his head ; upon which the 

 whole afTembly, his mother only excepted, fell down and 

 paid him homage ; and at his inauguration he took the name 

 of Adiam Segued. 



On a feparate throne, on his right hand, fat the queen- 

 mother. She, too, was crowned, though not anointed ; but 

 the fame homage was performed to her that had been done tq 

 the king, who fat on the throne with his head covered ; nor 

 did the Abuna interfere, nor was his attendance judged any 

 part of the ceremony. 



The firft feeds of difcontent had been fown in Damot, 

 where a party of rebels had attacked Kafmati Cambi in the 

 night, cut moft of his army to pieces, and obliged Shalaka 

 Job to fly into Gojam, and then return in hafte to Gondar. 



The king found no better remedy againft this rebellion 

 than to appoint Kafmati Waragna governor of Damot, and 

 Sanuda guardian of Wechne, with orders to take with him 

 a fon of the late Ouftas the ufurper, and confine him with 

 the king's fons upon that mountain. At the fame time he 

 appointed Ayo governor of Begemdcr; both thefe prefer- 

 ments being much to the fatisfaclion of the whole nation. 

 "Waragna, knowing the neceiflties of his province, marched 

 from Gondar with what forces he could colleclj and took 



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