ABSTRACT
Viceroy Cela Christôs could see that the people of Tigrê were so dull of understanding that, although they had often heard from people who {should} <could> be given credence that Emperor Iacob had died in the battle that he had fought in the land of Gôl and had been buried in sight of the chiefs of the army in the church that they call Naçaret, even so they held the word of {[f. 494]} a man who hid his face to be more reliable and followed him as if they clearly knew him to be Emperor Iacob. Nor could they understand that it was not the viceroy, with his very little power, <[f. 450/439]> who was causing such great damage and slaughter every day, but the hand of God, who was fighting to help him against them and punishing their hard-heartedness and stubbornness. He therefore thought that it would not be possible to find a remedy or put an end to such madness unless the emperor went there with force and they pursued the insurgent until they captured him. He therefore wrote to him about what was happening, as we saw above in chapter 19 of his History.
