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Ow the other-hand, Adera Tacca Georgis, (the king’s Fit- 
Auraris) and Guebra Welleta Yafous, principal people in 
Maittha, and whom Fafil had put about the king, defiredleave 
to retire to their own country, from which it is’ probable 
they will never again return to bea saenic unlefs as ene- 
mies. i 
Attuoucu the king ftill obftinately infifted that the Ras 
fhould pay him his thoufand ounces of gold, and five 
hundred mufquets, as a price for his being fet at liberty, - 
this was refufed by Gufho, in terms that fhewed he was 
not now, as formerly, afraid of the king’s power. On the 
other hand, the king proclaimed Kefla Yafous governor of 
the province of Tigré, with the fame extent of command 
as Ras Michael had enjoyed it; and he was already there, 
and had taken upon him the government of that province. 
At the fame time the king fuperfeded Gufho, and deprived ~ 
him of his province of Amhara, which was given to his 
nephew Ayto Adigo, fon of Palambaras Durrie, a man of 
very great intereft and property in the province; after 
which he immediately left Gondar, and took his way thre’ 
Begemder:; but at the very entrance into Amhara, he was 
defeated by a fon of Gufho who was expecting him ; his 
troops were difperfed, and his brother, Ayto Adereffon, (the 
man who loft Gufho’s horfe at the battle of Tedda) wound- 
ed and taken prifoner. 
THERE remained no longer any doubt that, as foon as 
the rains were over, the former fcenes of bloodfhed and 
confufion were to be acted over again; for, by appointing 
Kefla Yafous to the government of Tigre, and Ayto Adigo 
axe) that of Amhara, and the peaceable paflage given to this 
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