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camp, who immediately ordered two of them to be hanged, 
and the reft to be whipt and difmiffed, 
Tensa Curisros, after having done this good fervice, 
came into the room to the king, and kiffed the ground in 
the ufual manner before him. ‘The king immediately or- 
dered him to rife, gave him his hands to kifs, and then per- 
mitted him to withdraw, without having faid one word in 
his commendation for having delivered him from fo great 
a danger. That fame day, a little after noon, a party of 
foldiers was fent into the town, who apprehended Shalaka 
Becro and his fon; Nebrit Tecla, and his two fons ; two fons 
of Lika Netcho a prieft, and another man, whofe name I 
have forgot, in all eight perfons, natives of the province of 
Tigré, dependants and fervants of Ras Michael, and mur- 
derers of the late king Joas. Thefe being brought to the 
market-place, were delivered into the hands of the Edjow 
Galla, formerly Joas’s guard. Becroand his fon were hewn 
to pieces with knives ; Nebrit Tecla’s fons, the eldeit firft, 
and then the youngeft, were thruft through with lances ; 
and their father being then brought to them where they 
lay, and defired to fay if he knew who they were, and an- 
{wering in the negative, he was immediately cut to pieces,. 
as were the others, with great circumftances of cruel- 
ty, and their mangled bodies thrown about the ftreets, 
Thefe were all the executions which followed this great 
and fudden revolution ; a proof of very exemplary mode- 
ration in the conquerors, confidering the number of people 
concerned in the parricide firft, and the confequential rebel- 
lion after. Lika Netcho, in particular, fully as guilty as his 
fons, was neverthelefs fpared, becaufe he had married one 
of the king’s relations. | 
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