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feveral other leading men among the Tigrans. If the devil 
can fpeak true, here furely was one example of it, Gondar 
that very day had proved fatal to the Ras; and Kefla Ya- 
fous himfelf told me, long after Michael was gone, and all 
was peace, that having vifited him that very evening he left 
Debra Berhan, Michael had privately upbraided him with 
having prevented his burning the town, and told him, that 
his guardian fpirit, Saint Michael the archangel, or the de- 
vil, or whatever we may pleafe to call it, had left him, and 
never appeared to him again fince he had pafled the river 
Tacazzé on his return to Gondar; and to this he attribu- 
ted his prefent misfortunes. 
At the king’s arms were furrendered with the reft, and 
Kefla Yafous was the only man that remained unfubdued, 
a diftinétion due to his fuperlative merit, and preferved to 
him by his enemies themfelves in the very heat of con- 
quett. oh 
As for the Ras, he had continued in the houfe belonging 
to his office, vifited only by fome private friends, but had 
fent Ozoro Efther to the Iteghé’s at Kofcam, as foon as he 
entered Gondar. He ate, drank, and flept as ufual, and rea- 
foned upon the event that had happened with great equa- 
nimity and feeming indifference. There was no appearance 
of guards fet upon him; but every motion and look were 
privately, but ftri€tly watched. The next day, when he 
heard how ill his difarmed men were treated by the popu- 
lace, when they were difmifled to Tigré, he burft into tears, 
and cried out in great agony, Had I died before this I had 
been happy. He played no more at drafts, by which game 
formerly he pretended to divine the iffue of every affair of 
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