H.I.M. FACTS

 I was born on the 16^th of Hamle 1884 (23^rd July 1892), in the year of John, at Ejersa Goro, not far from Harar. Wayzaro Mazlaqiya, the daughter of my father’s sister Wayzaro Ehta Maryam, had married Dejazmatch Hayla Sellasse Abaynah when I was 4 months old she gave birth Emru (now Ras Emru), and the two of use grew up together as if we were twins.[1]

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[1] See H.I.M. Autobiography at 15