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Nanna Georgis, who chiefly was aimed at as the au- 

 thor of this revolt, efcaped, with great difficulty, wounded, 

 from the field ; and the feud which had long fubnfted be- 

 tween Waragna's family and the race of the Agows, recei- 

 ved great addition that day, and came down to their pofteri- 

 ty, as we fhall foon fee by what happened in Waragna's , 

 fon's time at the bloody and fatal battle of Banja. 



The next affair that called the attention of government, 

 was a complaint brought by the monks of Magwena, a 

 ridge of rocks of but fmall extent not far from Tcherkin, 

 the eftate of Kafmati Netcho. Thefe mountains, for a great 

 part of the year, almoft calcined under a burning fun, have, 

 in feveral months, violent and copious mowers of rain, 

 which, received in vaft caves and hollows of the -mountain, 

 and out of the reach of evaporation, are means of creating 

 and maintaining all forts of verdure and all fcenes of plea- 

 fure, in the hot feafon of the year, when the rains do not fall 

 elfewhere ; and as the rocks have a confiderable elevation 

 above the level of the plain, they are at no feafon infecleci 

 with thofe feverifh. diforders that lay the low country waite, 



Netcho was a man of pleafure, and he thought, ilnce 

 the monks, by retiring to rocks and deferts, meant thereby 

 to fubject themfelves to hardship and mortification, that 

 thefe delightful and flowery fcenes, the groves of Magwena, 

 were much more fuited to the enjoyment of happineis with 

 the young and beautiful Ozoro Either, than for any fet of 

 men, who by their auflerities v/ere at conftant war with 

 the fleih. Upon thefe principles, which it would be very 

 difficult for the monks themfelves to refute, he took pof- 

 feilion of the mountain Magwena, and of thofe bowers 



that. 



