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CHAP. VIL 
King and Army retreat to Tigré—Interefting Events following that Re- 
treat—The Body of Foas is found—Favourable Turn of the ae s 
Affairs—sSocinios, a new King, proclaimed at Gondar. 
HE king had heard that Gufho and Powuflen, with 
Gojam under Ayto Aylo, and all the troops of Beleffen 
and Lafta, were ready to fall upon him in Gondar as foon 
as the rains fhould have fwelled the Tacazzé, fo that the 
army could not retire into Tigré;. and it was now thought 
to be the inftant this might happen, as the king’s procla- 
mation in favour of Fafil, efpecially the giving him Gojam, 
it was not doubted, would haften the motion of the rebels. 
Accordingly that very morning, after the king arrived, the 
proclamation was made at Gondar, giving Fafil Gojam, Da- 
mot, the Agow, and Maitfha; after which his two fervants 
were again magnificently cloathed, and fent back with ho- 
nour. 
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