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Michael, at once forgetting his own intereft, and the quality 

 and confequence of the officers before him, fell into a vio- 

 lent and outrageous paffion againft the fupplicants, and, 

 after a very fhort reproof, ordered each of them to their 

 tents in a kind of difgrace. 



He then flernly interrogated Woofheka, whether he did 

 not remember that, at Tedda, he had ordered him out of 

 the country in ten days ? then, in his own language of Tigre, 

 he afked, if there was any one among the foldiers that 

 could make a leather bottle? and being anfwered in the af- 

 firmative, he ordered one to be made of Woofheka's fkin y 

 but firft to carry him to the king. The foldiers under- 

 flood the command, though the miferable victim did not, 

 and he was brought to the king, who would not fuffer him 

 to fpeak, but waved with his hand to remove him ; and 

 they accordingly carried him to. the river fide, where they 

 flayed him alive, and brought his ikin fluffed with flraw to 

 Ras Michael. 



It was not doubted that Ozoro Either, then in the camp, 

 had fealed the fate of this wretched victim. She appeared 

 that night in the king's tent drefTed in the habit of a bride,, 

 which ihe had never before done fince the death of Mariam 

 Barea. Two days after, having obtained her end, ilie re- 

 turned triumphant to Gondar, where Providence viflted her 

 with diftrefs in her own family, for the hardnefs of her 

 heart to the fufFerings of others. 



During this time I was at Mafnah, where, by reafon of 



the great diftance and interruption in the roads, thefe tranf- 



j actions 



