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prefsly a violation of the law of the land, which permits but 
one Iteghé, and never allows the nomination of a new one 
while the former is in life, however diftant a relation fhe 
may be to the then reigning king. - In confequence of this 
new coronation, two large villages, Tfhemmera and Tocufla, 
which belonged to the Iteghé as appendages of her royalty, 
of courfedevolved upon the king’s own mother, newly crown- 
ed, who fending her people to take poffleflion, the inhabi- 
tants not only refufed to admit her officers, but forcibly drove 
them away, declaring they would acknowledge no other 
miftrefs but their old one, to whom they were bound by the 
laws of the land.. | 
Ir Gutho, in this manner, dealt hardly with the queen,. 
his behaviour to the king was neither more just nor gene- 
rous : he had not only failed toadvance any gold for the 
king’s fubfiftence, but had intercepted that part of his re- 
yenue which he knew was ready to be paid him, and in the 
hands of others of his fubjects.. A ftated daily allowance. 
was,'indeed, delivered to the king in kind for the mainte- 
nance of his houfehold, but even this was fmaller than had 
been fettled by Ras Michael; befides which, 20 jars of ho- 
ney, being one day fent the king from Damot, and. at the 
fame time-1oo0' cotton coats from Waikayt, both thefe were 
feized upon by Gutho, without any part being offered to: 
the king, who thereupon determined to break with. him, as. 
did the Iteghe from the former provocation. 
AYABDAR, never reconciled to him before the battle of 
Serbraxos, had frefh reafon of difference with him from an: 
naequal diftribution of Ras Michael’s effets, while Enge- 
dan, who had been. promifed the province of Kuara, and: 
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