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A30860	The late travels of S. Giacomo Baratti, an Italian gentleman, into the remote countries of the Abissins, or of Ethiopia interior wherein you shall find an exact account of the laws, government, religion, discipline, customs, &c. of the Christian people that do inhabit there with many observations which some may improve to the advantage and increase of Trade with them : together with a confirmation of this relation drawn from the writings of Damianus de Goes and Jo. Scaliger, who agree with the author in many particulars / translated by G.D.	Baratti, Giacomo.; G. D.; Góis, Damião de, 1502-1574.; Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609.	1670 (1670)	Wing B677; ESTC R11736	63,785	282

so that at present in all the Empire there are but few Walled Towns and they are so pitiful that the weakest enemy might storm them In the time of this Prince Trade and Shipping did mightily increase so that he was dreadful to his Neighbours when he had governed the Empire twenty six years he dyed H●li his Son succeeded him he was the youngest his Father had for him a great kindness which was increased by his address and handsome behaviour His elder brethren were set aside and he was raised upon the Throne he was very happy all his time and enjoyed a firm peace with most of his Neighbours he continued Emperour forty seven years and three moneths After him Hell the second Melach Charvah Bou●i Grimshach Habraim ● c. with about thirty Kings are to be reckoned from that time to the year 936. In which year the Ethiopian Emperours that were grown so potent by Land adventured to enlarge their dominions by Sea in Asia for that intent David Emperour of Ethiopia prepared a Fleet of above 500 Sail of ships small and great to transport his Army composed of 60000 Men both Horse and Foot with this numerous Army he Landed in Arabia and conquered all that part of the Country that lies upon the Sea-shoar The Abyssins found their abode in Asia far more pleasant than in Africa therefore great numbers of men went over and passed the Seas into the new conquests The Persians and Arabians did oppose their designs but our Emperour being there in person did so order his business that all the Forces that were sent against us were routed many battels were fought between us with various success The last was near the place where the River Euphrates discharges it self into the Sea seven Kings were met upon the place with all the men that they could conveniently bring to withstand our Emperour The enemies reckoned about two hundred thousand men in their Army we had then about forty thousand this unequal number did encounter them and by the wonderful goodness of God they did overcome them This Victory opened a way to our success in Asia for it rendred the name of Ethiopia most terrible so that none did dare to meet us with equal numbers of men every year our people sent great numbers of men with their Families to inhabit in Asia and by that means to secure their interest from the ancient Inhabitants by force of Arms. The next that succeeded in the Empire was Uncan I. A man no less Valarous than his Father a great lover of Learning and of the Learned men he enlarged his dominions beyond the River Indus and conquered all that part of the Country that is so fruitful that the Asiatiques esteem it the best and most fruitful Province of that part of the world This Prince had several encounters with his Neighbours 〈…〉 Asia where he made for the mo 〈…〉 part his residence In one the King of Malabar came against him with 40000 Foot and Horse The Ethiopians were full of valoue and courage but the numbers of their enemies put them to great straits so that they offered to render themselves into their hands in case they would suffer them quietly to depart with their lives saved The enemy would not accept of that offer to his own detriment for ours being refused the condition proposed and seeing nothing but death or at least but bondage and misery prepared for them and their Prince they tool courage encounter'd the enemy with a great resolution broke the first ranks of them and then pursued them with that fury that they left not killing until the whole multitude with their King at their head fled away leaving all their own spoils and the Goods that they had taken in the former advantages they had had against our Emperour Several Emperours did succeed him but not to his Fortune and Success unless it be Joseph 3. Judahr Macarius and Paulus They carryed the terrour of our Arms into China and there possessed themselves of many large Provinces which we enjoyed until the year 1436. The Tartars about that time made some In-roads into China and finding the Climate good and the Country fruitful they invited their Countrymen into those Regions Some few years after they had gathered a numerous Army to enter China they conquer'd the Emperour of that Country who had desired our assistance against them we complyed with their desires our Emperour sent 30000 men to their assistance but by the stratagems and valour of the Tartars our men were almost all slain The Chinenses being destitute of that succour yielded themselves to the mercy of the Conquerours who thought upon nothing but how to revenge themselves upon us they came therefore with their own forces with those that they had gathered in the Country and drive out our people out of China giving no quarter to those that submitted to them There arose some dispute between some of our Generals at that time that assisted the Tartars against us so that when Uncan was kill'd in a battel by Cingi the Tartar Prince all our Countrymen left Asia with all hopes of returning thither again Since we have had many grievous encounters with our enemies the Mahumetans and Gentiles who have sometimes persecuted us into the heart of the Country when they took us at an advantage About the year 1434 the King of Adel with many of our Neighbours stormed our Sea-port Towns when our Emperour was but young and so shut us in that we have no place to entertain Commerce with any Nation without their leave In the year of our Lord several Portugueses came from Goa into our Country our Emperour dispatcht away some Embassadours with them to Rome and Portugal 1486 came into Ethiopia from John King of Portugal Pedro de C●●ilham ec a lenzo de Pavia to Alexander our Neguz that treated them well Claudius succeeded Alexander and after him Adamas who was inclined to favour the Heathens superstitions he persecuted the Christians but met at last with a just Reward of his Actions for he was kill'd by his enemies in a battel FINIS Books sold by Benjamin Billingsley at the Printing-press in Broadstreet and at the same sign near the Royal Exchange in Cornhil BArtholinus Anatomy Eng. by Culpepers fol 10 s. Riverius Practice of Physick fol. 20 s. Schroders Dispensatory Eng. by W. Rowland 10 s. Lord Bacons Nat. History fol. 7 s. Reynolds Gods Revenge of Murther 10 s. Culpepers London Dispensatory Octavo 4 s. English Physician Octavo 3 s. Directory for Midwives Octavo 4 s. Last Legacy Octavo 2 s. 6 d. A Treatise of Wind offending Mans Body with its speedy and easie Remedy Octavo 1 s. A Touch-stone for Physick Octavo 1 s. A Discourse touching Generation collected out of L●vinus L●mniu● Twelves 1 s. 6 d. Edlins Observationes Astrologicae Octavo 1 s. Pharmacop●ia Londinensis twenty-four Latine 1 s. 6 d. Burrows Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment Quarto 2 s. 6 d. The Vulcano's or Fire-Vomiting Mountains c. 1 s. Hudsons Vindication of the Church-Catholick 3 s. Bourns Directions concerning Marriage 1 s. The Epitome of the whole Art of Husbandry the second edition much enlarged Octavo 2 s. Loveday's Letters Domestick and Forreign Octavo 2 s. 6 d. Janua Linguarum Latine and Eng. adorned with Copper Cutts 2 s. 6 d. Present State of Europe Quarto 3 s. Now in the Press Culpepers Semioti●a Vranica or his Astrological Judgment of Diseases The late Travels of Signior Giacomo Barati an Italian Gent. into the remote Countries of the Abyssines with a description of the Kingdoms Subject at this present to the Great Neguz of Ethiopia FINIS

Neighbours to send Presents to him but when he was forty years old he grew amorous and wanton so that his new conquered subjects took advantage of him in a Battel where he lost all that he had conquered with his life his successour laboured to revenge this affront but in vain until the days of David the first none ever did recover the vast dominions that did formerly own the Ethiop Scepter This Prince was wise and very politick sufficiently qualified to fit at the Helm of State but he was no Warrior for want of Courage to manage the affairs in desperate occasions he appointed a General Zecharia a stout man that did perform the Office of his Prince in this particular He was very successful against all our Neighbours especially against the Blacks that inhabit beyond the sands their Princes came to do homage unto our mighty Emperour and to pay their yearly tribute they continued in their obedience many years until the Reign of Joseph the third a Prince that was given to all manner of debauchery he Reigned ten years and was afterwards killed by his chief Officers who were willing to preserve the State from total ruine which would have happened had he continued longer upon the Throne for he did not only permit but also invite the enemies of the Empire to enter into his dominions that they might revenge him of those Princes that he did not love and that he did not dare to punish himself therefore he made use of the strangers weapons to vex them that he could not otherwise overcome From that time we have nothing remarkable until Christs death at Jerusalem for all the Princes that did rule until that time were neither good nor bad they contented themselves with their own limits and if they did lose any part of their possessions they never made any great noise by raising their Armies to retake them Queen Candace was a most pious and Religious Woman her Eunuch of the Race of Black a-Moors did follow her steps he made his Pilgrimage to Jerusalem every five years from that place he brought the Christian faith that did daily increase insomuch that not one was found opposing it within two hundred years after The eldest Son of Candace for whom she did govern was Shediahr a mostvertuous man he encouraged Christian Religion in his dominions but would never suffer the old ceremonies to be abolished so that since the Jewish and Christian are mingled together he pull'd down many Idol Temples upon the borders which caused the revolt of some of his most superstitious subjects but one battel brought them under his command again His Son was Adreschek he succeeded his father when he was but sixteen years of Age. A certain Heathen Priest had crept into his favour so much that for his sake he did labour to oppose the success of the Christian and the continuance of the Jewish Religion in Ethiopia His Princes could not suffer him long they conspired against him and placed his young brother in his place but him they sent into the Kingdom of Damut into a close Prison that hath always been in those parts he did afterwards escape out of it and fled to the Blacks who did come against Ethiopia with a strong Army but they were vanquished and forced to suffer their Fugitive Prince to become a Prisoner again The eldest Son of this King was an accomplished Prince so that his Uncle had some jealousie of him therfore clapt him in a close prison with his Father but when he was dead the Grandees fetcht him out of his confinement and raised him to the Throne during the life of his Father who consented to the promotion of his Son After him Absalom was a famous Prince renowned for his careful provision against the enemies incursions for he caused certain Forts to be built in convenient places to bridle them in They were afterwards neglected and ruinated by the Wars He first began to encourage Shipping by offering great advantages to the Mariners and men that did study the Art of Navigation This good policy caused all the idle persons to render themselves excellent in the Sea affairs and laid the Foundation to that greatness unto which the Ethiopian Empire did afterwards rise Benjamin Reigned forty years about the year 600 after Christ from his time we have a good account of all our Kings but before none are named but those that have been excellent for some vertue or infamous by their notable vices This Prince was full of piety he reformed the disorders of the Clergy and put them in that form of Government in which they are at present before the persons that did wait upon the Worship of God had no setled allowance the people gave them what they pleased so that unless they did work as other people for their livings they were reduced to great necessities which nevertheless did happen in many places for he that depends upon his peoples kindness shall be enentertain'd with course Diet unto this great evil that entroduces many others in a Nation this Religious Prince did bring a Remedy As he was the sole Lord of all the Lands of his Empire and that none enjoyed them but from him he caused such a quantity of ground to be set apart for the maintenance of the Priests and Bishops as might entertain them with the yearly Revenue and caused this Land to be separated from the rest by granting unto it the priviledge of immunity from all saxes and Imposts so that they depend no longer upon the Crown This liberality redeemed the Clergy from contempt and raised them in the esteem of the people that usually treats them not according to their desert but according to that State that they maintain After the good Prince his second Son Hechakiah did Reign he followed his Fathers footsteps therefore he was blessed with a prosperous Reign his greatest enemies did respect him he continued in the Throne about thirty five years and a few moneths His Brother Abraham the first succeeded he held the Scepter ten years and then left it to his Son with all the Wealth his Brother had gotten His Sons name was Haroahki a Warlike Prince he began to leave the Cities and to pass his time in Tents for in the beginning of his Reign all the Nations subject to the Neguz began to revolt from him he could not appease the tumult so soon he was therefore forced to live in the Camp and to be in continual action all the time of his Reign He caused it to be enacted for the security of the State that the Ethiopian Emperour should never spend above six days in a Walled Town at a time but should live in the open Field All the Nobility that doth follow the Princes custom imitates him in this particular They look upon it as a great expression of weakness and fear to run into a fortified place This hath caused them to neglect such places and suffer them to be dismantled by time