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became strained, when the emperor detached the land beyond Alla Wuha and gave it to Ras Gebre Medhin of Tigray as a sign of affection. Apparently this was a time when the
Dervishes were moving towards Metema. To defend the motherland from the Dervishes, the emperor ordered Zegeye to mobilize an
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expeditionary force to Metema. Zegeye pretended that he was ill, but was forced to maneuver his soldiers against the invaders. Still under the pretense of illness, Zegeye went on a stretcher from Yejju to Metema. In Metema,
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and appointed him governor of Yejju. This, however, led
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died and when Zegaye saw the death of the emperor, he jumped off the stretcher and came back to Yejju.
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Aligaz. He was the ruler of Yejju until the emergence of Ras Welle Betul.
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whom he knew while in prison in
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