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young nobleman through Begemder, in order to fupplans 
his uncle Gufho, by the great confidence fhewn by the king 
in the old. officers and relations of Ras Michael, now at 
Gondar, and the difmiffion of Fafil’s friends, (Adera Tacca 
Georgis and Confu Adam) the moft ample confeflion pof- 
fible was made, that the king had again thrown himfelf in- 
to the arms of the province of Tigré and Begemder united, 
to which Amhara was to be added, by keeping Gufho pri- 
foner, till fuch.time as his nephew Adigo could gain.entire 
poffeffion.. 
To counterpoife this, a meflenger arrived from Fafil, de-- 
_manding privately of the king, that Gufho fhould be fet at 
liberty, and return to his province of Amhara; that Lika 
Netcho, one of the murderers of Joas, (who had been {pared, . 
as being married to a relation of the king) fhould be im- 
mediately put to death, and that all the officers belonging to 
Ras Michael, then at court, fhould be banifhed for ever to 
Tigré, their native country.. The king returned a pofitive. 
refufal, not qualified inany fhape whatever... 
A DISAGREEMENT now-liappened, which, more than all’ 
the reft, was interefting, and difturbed me in particular. 
Pofitive information was brought to the Iteghe,. and, I. 
believe, very authentic, that the king, weary:of the mas 
ny councils held at Kofcam by the fervants-and deputies 
of the feveral parties, in the queen’s prefence, (to which he 
was not called) had. determined to give up the palace of 
Kofcam, in which it was thought there were great riches, to» 
be plundered by his foldiers; As the death of the queen by 
her confinement in fome diftant defert and unwholefome: 
convent, muft have probably been the confequence: of fuc- 
ce{ss 
