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and, die cafe being referred to the judges next day, it was 

 found unanimously in council, that Ras Michael was in the 

 right, and that Fafilwas guilty of- rebellion. A proclama- 

 tion in confequence was made at the palace- gate, fuperfe- 

 ding Fafil in his government of Damot, and in every other 

 office which he held under the king, and appointing Bora 

 de Gago in his place, a man of great intereft in Damot and 

 Gojam, and with the Galla on both fides of the Nile, and*' 

 married to a lifter of Kafmati Ellite'.Sj. by another mother,,, 

 otherwife a. man of fmall capacity. 



Fasil, after a long and private audience of the king in . 

 the night, decamped early in the morning with his army, 

 and fat down at Azazo, the high road between Damot and 

 Gondar, and there he intercepted all the provifions coming 

 from the fouthward to the capital. - 



It happened that the houfe in Gondar, where Ras Mi- 

 chael lived, was but. a fmall diftance from the palace, a 

 window of which opened fo directly into it, that Michael, 

 when fitting in judgment, could be diftinetly {<zen from 

 thence. One day, when moil of his fervants had left Mm, a 

 mot was fired into the room from this window of the pa- 

 lace, which, though it miffed Michael, wounded a dwarf, 

 who was Handing before him fanning the flies from off his 

 face, fo grievoully, that the page fell and expired at the foot 

 of his mafter. This was confidered as the -beginning of the 

 hoflilities. Nobody knew from whofe hand the ffiot came; 

 but the window from which it was aimed fufficiently mew- 

 ed, that if it was not by direction, itmuft at lead have been 

 fired with the knowledge of the king. . 



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