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not fee, but with great difpleafure, a Galla fuch as Kafmati 

 Waragna, however worthy, governor of Damot, and capa- 

 ble, therefore, of over-running the whole province in a 

 moment, by calling his Pagan countrymen from the other 

 fide. 



• 

 Waragna, though this was in his power, knew the 

 meafure was unpopular. Kafmati Efhte was the queen's 

 brother, and governor of Ibaba, a royal refidence, which 

 has a large territory and falary annexed to it. When, 

 therefore, at council, he had complained of the injury done 

 to him by Nanna Georgis, he refufed the taking upon him 

 the redreffing thefe injuries, and punifhing the Agows, 

 unlefs Kafmati Efhte was joined in the commiflion with 

 him. 



The reafon of this was, as I have often before obferved^ 

 that, as the Agows are thofe that pay the greatefl tribute in 

 gold to the king, and furnifh the capital with all forts of 

 provifions, any calamity happening in their country is fe- 

 verely felt by the inhabitants of Gondar; and the knowledge 

 of this occafions a degree of prefumption and confidence in 

 the Agows, of which they have been very often the dupes. 

 This, indeed, happened at this very inftant. For Waragna 

 and Efhte marched from Gondar, and with them a number 

 of veteran troops of the king's houfehold of Maitfha, de- 

 pending on Ibaba ; and this army, without bringing one 

 Galla from the other fide of the Nile, gave Nanna Georgis 

 and his Agows fuch an overthrow that his clan was near- 

 ly extirpated, and many of the principal of that nation 

 ilain. 



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