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perfons, almoft as foon as they were uttered, nothing fo£- 

 tened< 



The confequences of the marriage of Ozoro Eflher were 

 very foon feen in the inveterate and determined hatred againft 

 the Galla. Either, who could not fave Mariam Barea,facri- 

 ficed herfelf that fhe might avenge his death, and live to 

 fee the lofs of her hufband expiated by numberlefs heca- 

 tombs of his enemies and murderers. Mild, gentle, and 

 compailionate as, from, my own knowledge, fhe certain-, 

 ly was, her nature was totally changed when fhe call back 

 her eyes upon the fufferings of her hufband; nor could 

 me be ever fatiated with vengeance for thofe fufferings, 

 but conftantly ftimulated Ras Michael, of himfelf much in- 

 clined to bloodfhed, to extirpate, by every poflible means,,, 

 that odious nation of Galla, by whom fhe had fallen from A 

 all her hopes of happinefs, . 



Easil, as being a Galla, the firfl man that broke thro r the: 

 horfe of Begemder, and wounded and put to flight her liuf* 

 band Mariam Barea, was inconsequence among the black, 

 lift of her enemies. Fafil, too, had murdered Kafmati Efhte >: 

 who was her favourite uncle, fafl friend to Mariam Barea^ 

 and the man that had promoted her marriage with him. . 



The great credit of Fafil with the king had now given 

 Ras Michael violent jealoufy. Thefe caufes of hatred accu- 

 mulated every day, fo that Michael had already formed a> 

 reiolution to deflroy. Fafil, even though the king mould 

 p:rifh with him. In thefe fentiments, too, was Gufho of 

 Amhara, a man of great perfonal merit, of whofe father, Ras 

 "Wppdage, we have already fpoken, who had filled fucceffive- 



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