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Arrer thefe appointments, which were not difputed with: 
him, though otherwife very much againft the king’s incli- 
nation, Fafil retired with his army to Maitfha, 
In the mean time, Gufho fet every thing to fale, content 
with the money the offices produced, and what he could 
fqueeze from people who had crimes, real or alledged, to 
compound for. He did not perceive that fteps were taking 
by his enemies which would foon deprive him of all the ad- 
vantages he enjoyed. Inftead of attending to this, he amu- 
fed himfelf with mortifying the Iteghe, whofe daughter, Wel- 
leta Ifrael, he had formerly married, but who had long left — 
him by the perfuafion of her mother. He thought it was arm 
affront to his dignity that the king had pardoned Likaba 
Beecho, and Palambaras Mammo, the very day after he had 
forbid them to enter the town; and, what was ftill flronger,. 
that the king, without his confent, had fent an invitation te: 
the Ireghé to return to Gondar, and govern, as his mother,. 
to the extent fhe did in the time of Joas ; he refolved there- 
fore to attempt the creating a mifunderftanding between 
the king and queen, a matter not very difficult in itfelf to 
bring about. | . 
Gusno had confifcated, in the name of the king, all the 
queen’s villages, which made her believe that this offer of 
she king to bring her to Gondar was an infidious one. In 
order to make the breach the wider, he had alfo prevailed 
uipon the king’s mother to come to Gondar, and infift with 
her fon to be crowned,and take the title and ftate of Ireghé, 
"Fhe king was prevailed uponto gratify his mother, under 
pretence that the Iteghé had refufed to come upon his in- 
vitation 3 but this, as it was a pretence only, fo it was ex- 
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