As yet none o f the chiefs o f the rebels had entered Gon-
-dar. Meflages had palled, but not frequently, between the
k in g and G u lho; fewer itili between him and Fowufien ;
as for the reft, they teemed to .take no lead at all.
On thè i ft o f June, ’Gulho and Fowuffen came both to
the houfe o f the Ras, where they interrogated him very
roughly as to all his paft conduit. Till the execution o f
Joas’s murderers, he had .conftantly dreffèd himfelf in his.
very beft apparel, with all the infignia o f command. As
foon as this was told him, he cloathed himfelf plainly, and
conftantly in white, with a cowl o f the fame colour on his
head, like the monks, a lign he had retired from the world.
It feemed as i f this was done through .a fondnefs for life,
for by that a it he devoted the remainder o f his days to ,ob-
fcurit-y and penitence. Nothing remarkable happened at
this interview, at leaft as fa r as was known. From thence
Gulho and Powuflen went to the k in g ’s palace, where they
■did homage, and took the oaths o f allegiance.
It was there refolved that Gulho Ihould be Ras, and
the other places were all difpofed of. From this time forward
the k in g began to have a ihew o f government, no
party havingteftified any fort o f difcontent with h im ; on
the contrary, each o f the rebel chiefs now waited upon him
feparately, and had long conferences with him ; but, what
bade faireft to re-eftabliih his' authority entirely was, the dif-
fentions that evidently reigned among the leaders o f the rebels
themfelves, whom w e, however, ihall no longer conlider
as fuch, not becaufe their treafon had profpered, but be-
caufe they were now returned to their duty. It was ftrong-
Jy fufpected that a treaty was on foot between Guifatf and
a Michael,
Michael, by which the latter, in Confideratiori o f a large
fum, was to put the former again in poireffion o f thé province
o f T ig ré ; others again faid, 'th a t Kefla Yafous, ar
Ras Michael’s delife, was tó be made governor o f Tigré,
and to have a large fum o f gold, which Michael was fup-
pofed to have concealed there, and which he Was to remit
to Gulho, whilft he" and Michael were to underftand each
c fh e r about the government o f thè province.
Be that as it may, Powuflen, on the 4th o f June', without'
an y previous notice given to Gulho, marched into Gondaf
w ith a thoufand horfe, and, without further ceremony, ordered
Ras Michael to be placed upon a mule, and, joining
the reft o f his army, who had all ftruck their tents, marched
away fo fuddenly to Begcmder, that Ozoro Efther, then
refidmg at the queen her mother’s hoüfe at Kofcam, had
fcarcely time to fend her old hulband a Freffi mille, and
fome fupply o f neceflary provifions. A ll the reft o f the
troops decamped immediately after, the rains beginning
n ow to be pretty confiant, and the foldiers defirous to be
at home. Some o f the great men, indeed, remained at
■Gondar, fuch as Ayabdar, Engedan, and others, who had
views o f preferment, Gulho took polTeflion o f the Ras’s
houfe and office ; the k in g ’s officers and fervants returned
to the palace ; the places o f thofè that had fallen in battle
were filled, and the whole town began to refume an appearance
o f peace, which every one who confiderei feared
wou ld be o f a very ffiort duration.
& f e w days after the army o f Begemder had left Gondar,
Powuflen fent the ufurper Socinios, loaded with irons, from
•Agar Salam, a finali town in Begemder, where h e had
H h , been