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feveral days. He refufed therefore to furrender upon the 
general fummons ; on which Powuflen, who was encamped 
- immediately below him, fent an officer to require him to 
fubmit, which he not only peremptorily refufed, but told 
the officer, that, unlefs he inftantly retired, he would give 
orders to fire upon him, as he had a treaty with Gutho, and, 
till that was ratified by Gufho himfelf, he would not furren- 
der, nor fuffer any.other perfon to approach his poft; at any 
Fate, that he did not intend to furrender toa man of Powuf- 
fen’s low birth, however high his prefent poft had raifed 
him, which he no longer acknowledged, being the mere 
gift of Michael, one complaint again{ft whom was that of 
levelling and confounding the nobility with their infe- 
L10rs. 
Gusuo accordingly fent an officer, a man of great cha. 
racter, and a relation of the king, with a contirmation of 
his promife; whereupon Kefla Yafous furrendered, and 
fent down his foldiers, with what arms he pleafed, to Gu- 
fho’s camp, carrying the reft privately to his own houfe, to 
which he retired that: very evening. ‘Kefla Yatous was 
much beloved by the inhabitants of Gondar, though a Ti- 
gran, and perhaps in neither -party was there a man fo uni- 
verfally efteemed. He had done the townfmen often great 
fervice, having always ftood between Michael and them in 
thofe moments of wrath and vengeance when no one elfe 
dared to fpeak ; and, in particular, he had faved the town 
from burning that morning the Ras had retired with the 
king to Tigre, when warned,as he faid, by an apparition of 
Michael the archangel, or more probably of the devil, to put 
the inhabitants of Gondar to the fword, and fet the city on 
fire; a meafure that was fupported by Nebrit Tecla, and 
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