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that, though in pofTeflion of faints, did not feem to have 

 been made for the folitary pleafures of one fex only. This 

 piece of violence was, by the whole body of monks, called 

 Sacrilege. Violent excommunications, and denunciations 

 of divine vengeance, were thundered out againfl Kafmati 

 Netcho. An army was fent againfl him ; he was defeated 

 and taken prifoner, and confined upon a mountain in Wal- 

 kayt, where foon after he died, but not before the Iteghe 

 had fhewn her particular mark of difpleafure, by taking her 

 daughter Ozoro Efther, his wife, from him, that me, too, 

 and her only fon Confu, might not be involved in the 

 monk's excommunications, and the imputed crime of fa- 

 crilege. 



At this time died Kafmati Waragna, full of years and 

 glory, having, though a flranger, preferved his allegiance to 

 the laft, and more than once faved the ftate by his wifdom, 

 bravery, and activity. He is aimoft a fmgle example in 

 their hiflory, of a great officer, governor of a province, that 

 never was in rebellion, and a remarkable inflance of Ba- 

 cuffa's penetration, who, from a fingle converfation with 

 him, while engaged in the viler! employment, chofe him as 

 capable of the greater! offices,, in , which he ufefully ferved 

 bch his fon and grandfon. 



Soon after, Ayo governor of Begemder, an older officer 

 flill than Waragna, arrived in Gondar, and refigned his go- 

 vernment into the queen's hands, This refignation was re- 

 ceived, beeaufe it was anderilood that it was directly to be 

 c : er.red upon his fon Mariam Barea, by far the moft hope- 

 ful young Abyffintan nobleman of his time. Another mark 

 of favour, foon followed, perhaps was the occanon of this^ 



Ozoro 



