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Angrab, till ic joined the Kahha, and Kafmati Gufho’s camp, 
_ were Powuflen and the reft of the confederate army; fo 
that by nine o’clock the town was completely invefted, as if 
a wall had been built round it. The water being all in 
poffeffion of the enemy, centinels were by them placed a-, 
long the banks of each river, with orders to fuffer every 
townfman to fill fingle jars, fuch as one man or woman 
could carry, and to break any fupernumerary jars, that 
might be brought by way of fecuring a larger provifion*. 
All the people of confequence who had property in and a- 
bout Gondar, who had fled to Fafil and to the provinces, 
from fear of Ras Michael when ‘he returned from Tigré, 
had gone back upon Gufho’s word, each man to his houfe; 
Gondar was full of meninarms. In Gufho’s and Ayabdar’ 
army, and depending on them, was the property of a 
Gondar. Ras Woodage, Gufho’s father, and brother 
to Ayabdar, had been Ras_in Yafous’ time, till he died, © 
univerfally beloved and regretted; Ayto Engedan and Ay- 
lo, fons of Kafmati Efhté, (by a fifter of king Yafous) had 
the property of near one half of the town. Though Enge- 
dan was prifoner, and Aylo had married Ras Michael’s 
ee they were, by intereft and incense united to 
incon to the Ae fo that euthe and Arabelene were due 
only citizens in whom the inhabitants of Gondar confided. 
Powuflen, and the reft, were looked upon as free-booters in 
their inclinations, at leaft by the townfmen; very little bef 
ter than Michael, or his troops of Tigre. 
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* For extinguithing fire. 
