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Powuflen and Gutho; and this was but what he had fpon- 
taneoufly promifed when he made his peace at Dingleber. 
At the fame time Ayto Aylo, brother to Engedan, was pro- 
claimed governor of Begemder; and all people holding of 
the king or of Aylo’s friends, (for he hada very large eftate in 
’ that province) were ordered to join him; but a very few 
came, among whom was the famous Guigarr, chief of the 
- clan, Waag of Lafta, fon to Aylo’s fifter. 
Mean time the king ufed all the means in his power to 
induce the Iteghé to return to Kofcam, for her prefence in 
Gojam kept alive the fpirit of a number of people that 
were attached to her; who bore very impatiently to fee her 
banithed, as fhe then was, though refident with her daugh- 
ter Ozoro Welleta Ifrael, and furrounded by the forces of 
Aylo her grandfon, who was governor of Gojam, and to 
whom half of that province belonged in property. But 
the queen was refolute never to truft Ras Michael, though 
it was believed fhe fent the king a fum in gold privately 
by Engedan. 
Ir was in the end of January that another meflage arm 
rived from Fafil, excufing his coming to Gondar on account 
of the badnefs of his health; he faid, befides, he could not 
truft Michael unlefs he gave him Welleta Selaffé, his grand- 
daughter, to wife, and fent her to him to Buré. I have al- 
ready mentioned that the Ras was fond of this young lady 
himfelf, and nothing but that hindered him from giving 
her to the king in marriage; and it was faid, and I believe 
with truth, that fome delicacy * the king had exprefled about 
Mm 2 this 
* Sufpicion of familiarity with the Ras her-grandfather. 
