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at the particular time alluded to was actually at Gondar; that the 
king gave him a house, but no land, command, or employ, during 
his stay in the country ; that he was a good horseman, and used 
to shoot from his saddle; that he had two interpreters, Michael, 
and Georgis, of whom one spoke Greek, and the other wrote 
Arabic ; and that when he was at Adowa, he resided in the house 
of Yannes, who sent fifteen mules for him down to Dixan. 
" I was also confirmed in a fact, that I had lately heard, but had 
hesitated to commit to paper, from a doubt of its truth : — After Ras 
Michael Suhul's disgrace at Gondar, Kefla Yasous was appointed to 
the province of Tigre, of which he took possession accordingly. 
Soon afterwards Ras Michael gained his liberty, marched directly 
into the province, where his party was still very strong, and with 
little resistance reinstated himself in his command. Kefla Yasous 
falling into his hands, he first made him pay five hundred wakeas 
of gold ; and not satisfied with this, caused both his eyes to be 
plucked out, and his hands and feet to be cut off, and in this con- 
dition exposed him in the court yard of the house at Adowa to the 
sun by day, and the rain and cold by night ; no one was permitted, 
on pain of death, to give him a mouthful of water: and yet in this 
horrible state he remained for a space of nearly two days before he 
died. 
" Gusmatie Ischias was bold enough to object to this act of 
cruelty in his grandfather ; and this protest has since, perhaps, been 
the means of saving himself and the residue of his family. It is 
said that the present Ras was appointed to the government, as a 
compensation for the death of his father. 
It is singular, that though we passed three months in the 
