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Fortune feemed to have taken delight, from very early- 
life, conftantly to traverfe the greatnefs and happinefs of. 
this young lady. She was firft deftined to be married to: 
Joas, and the affair was near concluded, when the fatal dif 
covery, made at the battle of Azazo, that the king had fent- 
his houfehold troops privately to fight for Fafil againft Mis - 
chael, prevented her marriage, and occafioned his death.. 
She was then deftined. to old Hatzé Hannes, Tecla Haima-- 
nout’s father :-Michael, who found him incapable of being - 
a king, judged him as incapable of being a hufband to a. 
woman of the youth and charms of Welleta Selaffé, and, . 
therefore, deprived him at once of his life, crown, and’ - ° 
bride. She was now not feventeen, and it was defigned fhe « 
fhould be married to the prefent king; Providence put a. ae 
flop to a union that was not agreeable to either party: fhe- Ye 
died fome time after this, before the battle of Serbraxos $; 
being ftrongly prefled:to gratify the brutal inclinations of 
the Ras her grandfather, whom, when fhe could not refift: 
or avoid, fhe took poifon ;- others faid it was given her by 
Ozoro Efther from jealoufy, but this was certainly without 
foundation. I faw her in her laft moments, but too late to; 
give her any affiftance; and fhe had told herwomen-fervants . 
and flaves that fhe had taken arfenic, having no other way 
to avoid committing fo monftrous a crime as inceft with: 
the murderer of her father... 
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Tue rage that the interceffion of the daughter for her 
father Guebra Denghel had put the Ras into, was feen in. 
the feverity of the fentence he paffed' upon the other rr] 
two criminals ; Kefla Mariam’s eyes were pulled out, Se- 
baat Laab’s eye-lids were cut off by the roots, and both of 
them were expofed in the market-place to the burning fun, 
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