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HANNES II. 

 1769. 



Uannes, Brother to Bacujfa, chofen King — Is brought from Wechne — 

 Crowned at Gondar — Refufes to march againji Fafd—Is po'fbned 

 by Order of Ras Michael. 



HANNES, a man pad feventy years of age, made his en- 

 try into Gondar the 3d of May 1769. He was bro- 

 ther to Bacuffa, and having in his time efcaped from the 

 mountain, and being afterwards taken, his hand was cut 

 off by order of the king his brother, and he was fent back 

 to the place of his confinement. 



It is a law of Abyulnia, as we have already obferved, 

 derived from that of Mofes, that no man can be capable ei- 

 ther of the throne or priefthood, unlefs he be perfecl in all 

 his limbs; the want of a hand, therefore, certainly difquali- 

 fied Hannes, and it was with that intent it had been cut oiF. 

 When this was objected to him in council, Michael laugh- 

 ed violently, and turned it into ridicule ; " What is it that a 

 " king has to do with his hands ? Are you afraid he ihali 

 *' not be able to faddle his own mule, or load his own bag- 



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