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and after keeping him some time in confinement, gave him a vil* 
lage, where he died a few months ago. 
" Welleta Selasse has ever since commanded in Tigre, and was 
made Ras about seven years ago, at the accession of Ayto Edeneo, 
whom he was principally instrumental in raising to the throne. 
" He has during his command in Tigre been engaged in several 
contests : an account of some of these I give, as extracted at Axum, 
from the chronicles of this period. 
" Fourteen years ago the present Ras marched through the pro- 
vince of Tigre, which was in a state of rebellion, almost to the 
borders of Samhar: it was at the time of harvest, and he destroyed 
the whole country before him ; he cut off the heads of all the chiefs 
in rebellion, and the inferior subjects he sold as slaves. After his 
return, he gave his niece in marriage to Fit Aurari Zogo, on which 
there were great rejoicings ; he afterwards paid a visit to Axum, to 
make his peace with God, attended by a great assemblage of war- 
riors. He then carried the war into the province of Sire, where a 
general alarm spread among the inhabitants ; and not even the , 
strongest holds were able to resist his power, for he carried destruc- 
tion before him wherever he went ; never was there such a hero 
known since the the time of Fogara Yasous. 
After this he crossed the Tacazza, went into Samen, made an 
alliance with Ras Gabriel, and staid three days feasting in his ca- 
pital. Being joined by Ras Gabriel, he attacked the provinces of 
Walkayt, Gojam, and Begemder, then governed by Ras Ayto and 
Aguldon Welled Gabriel, brother of Ras Israel. He dispossessed the 
chiefs of their power, and obliged them to fly from their provinces : 
they sought assistance from Hamed, then Nayib of Massowah, who 
