THE SOURCE OF THE NILE 573. 
CHAP. If. 
Battle’ of Banja—Confpiracy againft Michael—The Author retires to- 
Emfras—Defcription of Gondar, Emfras, and Lake Txana. 
- FTER Fafil’s defeat at Fagitta, and the affront he recei-- 
A ved at Affoa in the heart of his own country, he.-had- 
continued his route to Bure, a diftrict of the Agows, where 
was his conftant.refidénce. After this he had croffed the 
’ Nile mro the country of Bizamo, and Boro de Gago had ta- 
ken up his refidence at Buré, when Michael . returned to. 
Gondar; but-no fooner had he heard of his arrival in thofe-. 
parts than he marched with a numberof horfe, and forced : 
his rival to retire-to Goj am... 
Tue Agows were ail ioyalifts in their hearts, had ‘been - 
forced to join Fafil, but, immediately after his defeat, had de-- 
clared for Michael. The firft thing, therefore, Fafil did, when - 
returned to Bure, was to attack the Agows-on every fide; a 
double advantage was fure to follow-this victory, the fa- 
mifhing his enemies at-Gondar, and converting fo rich a 
territory to his.own ufe, by extirpating the Agows, and lay-. 
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