therefore did most deservedly seal his own condemnation and punishment, which overtook him in the end, though it did not follow till long afterwards.
To these violent proceedings were added others still more violent. A solemn excommunication was pronounced against all such as did not keep that oath, and a proclamation was forthwith made, "That all people, in the line of being ordained priests, should first embrace the Catholic religion upon pain of death; that all should observe the form of the church of Rome in the celebration of Easter and Lent, under the same penalty; and with that the ceremonies of the day ended.
- Tempus erit cura magna optaverit emptum,
- Intallum Pallanta.
it was a day ever to be marked with black, not only in the annals of Ethiopia, but in those of Rome.
Although the arrival of the patriarch at Bilur had been happily effected, both as to himself and those that attended him, it was not so with some of his brethren sent to assist him in that million. Two Jesuits, Francisco Machado and Bernard Pereira, had received the king's letters in India for their safe conduct to Bilur in Dancali. Whether by malice, or inadvertency, the king's secretary, instead of Bilur, had mentioned Zeyla in the letter.
Zeyla, an island belonging to the king of Adel, was of all other places that where the people were moll inveterate against the Catholic religion. No sooner did the Shekh know
