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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

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

because at a certain time of the year they send a sweet perfume unto them a Purse full of Gold and Silver and in consideration of this yearly tribute they suffer them to exact cheat and rob the poor Travellers and Merchants We advanced far into the Country many days journey before we came to the Turks Army they were upon their return from pillaging the Christians they were laden with spoils and slaves They made as much haste as they could in their march for the Precious John had gathered his Army together and was in the pursuit of them from Suez we came first into the Country called by the Inhabitants Ganfila next to Dafroha and so through Barnagasso Lacca and part of Dangali we arrived at last upon the borders The body of the Turks Army when we met it was near a large lake full of excellent fish The people of this Country are ignorant of all kind of Arts they have not the address of fishing with Bows and Arrows they kill Birds and Beasts upon which they feed and live they own the Turks for their Masters against their will This lake is in the Kingdom of Bamagasso which was lately conquered and taken from the Great Neguz the people retain some Reliques of Christianity but with that ignorance that one can scarce distinguish them from the Heathens unless it be by the name up and down the Country some sorry houses are erected fitter for wild beasts than men The walls are of mud and stones the roofs of a sort of slender Cane and Reeds which grow near the water side and in low places the middle of it is supported by a Pillar of wood that stands in the huts and keeps the whole Fabrick from falling to the ground for this miserable people are not acquainted with the Art of Architecture The Towns are composed of this sort of dwellings there are not many of them but those that are have chosen the best Land for their scituations near some fresh waters or lakes for unless it be in these places the ground is parched up all the year long but during the time of the Rains In Egypt they never fall but in Aethiopia they are very extraordinary about the month of January and February Such violent showers do pour down that no creature is able to abide without a shelter several parties of the Turks Army were stragling up and down but the main body was at the lake Gueresh When we came up to them they were composed of Horse and Foot about six thousand not able to abide a a combat with the Abyssins therefore they thought upon nothing else than a safe retreat They had plundred the Country people that were yet subject to Prester John and had carryed men women and children into captivity A sad sight it was unto us that were Christians to behold our brethren and our Christian name so miserably abused by the enemy of Christ our Abuna could not refrain from tears he laboured to relieve some of them and to comfort them in their affliction but for fear of discovering himself he was not willing to express too much grief or kindness to them The Embassadours credit saved us from all affronts we lodged two nights with them for during that time they expected the coming up of some Troups that were sent to pillage It is the custom of the people that border upon the Abyssins once a year to visit their Territories for they meet with a considerable deal of plunder with little or no hazard The Abyssins are more superstitious than warlike they have been renowned for Valour but at present they are Cowards they suffer every petty Nation that is daring to destroy their borders which is the fault chiefly of their Governors for having so much Riches as they have so many Mines of Gold and other considerable Commodities they might allow a part to some war-like people to fight under their banners and assist them against their troublesome Neighbours At present they have little communication with people of their Religion which if they had it would be a mighty support to them and their interest When the Portugueses were sent with an unconsiderable party into those Dominions the Abyssin Emperour felt the benefit of forrein succours for the enemy was beaten in two battels and forc'd to yield to the Christian Valour Amongst the Prisoners several Noblemens children were seen who by their Meen and Garb were distinguishable from the ordinary sort These poor creatures were led to be sold in Turky and other places as beasts and the worst is they were to be forced to renounce their Religion What a grief was it to their Christian Parents to suffer such a loss to have their Sons and Daughters amongst the Infidels This inconveniency might be prevented did these In-land Christians keep a strong Guard upon their confines or with a stout resolution labour to drive these Robbers far from their habitations or labour to revenge themselves by carrying the War into their own Land or by seizing on the Sea coast and the passages of the mountains that limit their Country where they might place such strong Castles and numerous Guards as might keep the Turks and Moors from all such attempts But when we have fully taken a view of Abassia or Aethiopia Superiour and of the Emperour and Government we may be better able to see the cause of these disorders that happen almost every year in some corner of the Land Having therefore spent some days in the view of our Christian brethren that were led into Captivity we took our leave of them and of the Turks Army and marched on our journey towards a large Town of the Kingdom of Tigremahon called Bashaw it lies beyond a large River that runs through Africa it receives the tribute from other small Rivers and then it runs through many Countreys until it discharges it self into Nilus the people of the Country call it in their language Togassi and others Guekrahock Were it not for this River it were not possible to subsist in this In-land Country but it divides it self into so many branches and waters so large a Territory that no part of the Emperours Country is without some benefit that it brings unto it The Country round about did hear the Marches of the enemies rage and fury the Towns were burnt to the ground the people either fled or carryed into captivity the land and trees were not spared in some places for they had cut down a great quantity to facilitate their passages over some Rivers Here we came into a Country far more fruitful than any other I had seen in Africa it was capable of more improvement did the Inhabitants skill and industry answer the goodness of the soil I do not find but this part might bear as excellent Fruits as any other place of the world The heat of the climate quickens nature in the production of all Vegetatives so that it is blessed with two Springs every year or at

in the middle of a large mountain called Amarak where a stately Castle is built encompassed with the River Borohr and fortified with a strong wall There they are kept with the other precious things belonging to the Emperour they never go out unless it be in the Gardens and places of Recreation with which this territory is abundantly furnished and then they never loose the sight of their governours and guard when the Father is dead the chief Officers of the Empire come to this place and unless the eldest be uncapable of the honour they take him to succeed in his Fathers room If there be no Sons the eldest Daughter takes the Scepter During their Fathers life they are kept here as in a Seraglio to learn all exercises proper to their Sex and age They are taught the Hebrew and Arabick tongues humane Philosophy and the Principles of Christian Religion Here is for that purpose a large Library of above ten thousand Volums all in Manuscripts some told me that they had there the most ancient Books of the world written by the Aegyptian Sages in the time of Moses by Phaenicians afterwards and by the Learned of all Ages I saw some in the Library into which I had the leave to enter that were made of the Aegyptian leaf called Papyrus and others made of old Parchment that did bear the marks of antiquity I ask'd the Subdi an Officer that led me in to see the curiosities how they did to preserve the Books so many years from consuming he told me that they do usually transcribe them when the leaves are worn or likely to decay and that for that intent there are twenty three Persons appointed with a good maintenance for them by the former Emperours their imployment is only to transcribe and copy out the books that age threatens to spoil they have not the excellent use of Printing for want of communication with their European brethren Hither are also sent the chief Noblemens sons of the Empire to keep company with the Royal bloud and to receive with them the instructions which this place only affords for here is maintained a Learned Bishop with several inferiour Priests that have the charge of instructing and tutering the Children that are committed to their custody The Bishop is Governor of the Castle and Overseer of the Diocess o● Kingdom of Amara here is his Palace and place of abode he seldom stirs to Court The Emperour visits this place oncea year with his Wives When he is chosen then all his brethren accompany him to his Coronation a great solemnity in this place as well as amongst our Christian Princes afterwards the Males are sent to govern Provinces the Maids are disposed of in Mariage to Noblemen who commonly expect this time as an opportunity to advance themselves by such an alliance The Emperour is first crowned with thorns before he puts on the Imperial Diadem in imitation of our Saviour or to express the troublesome employment that he is to undertake The Abuna puts both upon his head in the place appointed for the devotions of the people in the presence of all the Nobility of the Country At that time the Prisons are opened a thousand slaves are released at the Emperours charge and the poor are relieved actions that become a Christian Emperour besides a great Feast is kept several days with all the splendor that becomes so great a Prince and s● large a Fortune and great Revenue The present Emperou● name is Abraham he is a young man about thirty years of age his Meen is comely and pleasant his body is streight and tall the features of his face are very wel● proportioned so that he passet● for a great Beauty amongst them his eyes are quick and large he i● much delighted with the sport o● hunting the wild Beasts for tha● intent he keeps excellent Horse and great Mastives that are fetch● out of Indostan and Arabia th● chief Officers that are near his Person are his Bishur the Lieutenant General of his Armies the Zoroah the Treasurer and superintendant of his revenues the Bikir the grand Marshal of the Kingdom who is also the supream Judge of Affairs of consequence the Huloh the Secretary of State Diriharvah Neguz the Captain of the Guard or preserver of the great Emperours Person Satyrhab is the Chamberlain of his Houshold the Grashun is the keeper of his Horses several other Officers are in his Court whose names I omit when they come to their Emperour they bow their knee three times to the ground The Embassadours of the Infidels do never receive the honour of speaking to him but they are dealt with by the mediation of some appointed for that purpose The Abuna is much respected at Court what he speaks is received by all as a Law The former Emperour was a man of War but this is a Peace-maker to his own prejudice and that of his Subjects He hath this good quality that he is severe against all vices against Swearing and Drunkenness c. He is fitter to sit upon a peaceable Throne than to govern one that hath so many watchful enemies about it as his hath He is very inquisitive into all Affairs he suffers none to be dispatcht without his knowledge He is not easily over-ruled by Councel but sticks fast to his own opinion and resolution sometimes to his prejudice he is very Religious and a great observer of the Ceremonies of his Church hating all things that appear with the face of Innovation by this means it happens that all about him look so serious in their Religious duties and shew less profaness in their Practises their Princes example encourages them If any be named debauch'd he is certain to be disgrac'd as soon as the fame hath reach'd his Masters ear A great favourite of the Emperour one that attended on him continually was suspected to have some familiarity with anothers Wife the suspicion was blown by some envious persons into the Emperours ear who presently sent for him and dismissed him his service This good severity causeth his Laws to be well obeyed Did this Emperour know as well how to deal with his enemies as he doth know how to govern his Subjects he would be as much feared abroad as he is reverenced at home and all his Neighbours would stand in aw of him I doubt not but the Empire of Ethiopia would be again restored to its former Greatness could he but as well manage a Sword as a Scepter But that weakness is to be attributed to the manner and place of his Education he hath been shut within the narrow limits of a little Territory unto which he did confine his ambition when he was produced in the world his larger fortune did not increase his pretentions but being content to what he then enjoyed the increase was look'd upon as a super fluity besides this manner of Education weakens the spirits that should have a compass and a larger scope to act than a narrow

honour walks Women are rarely seen amongst the men at Court they have a private place unto which none is admitted but the Abuna and some of the most Religious Persons They have Eunuchs that wait upon them usually Blacks they appear at the Churches but in a place separated from the rest Sometimes when the Emperour will shew his Grandeur and happiness to his Courtiers he sends for his Chief Queen who must appear in all the State and Glory that her Industry or Beauty can produce she is received by the Emperour with some expressions of kindness and then she is admitted to sit down on his right hand for the left is the place of honour in Abassia Once every year he hath a great Feast kept at Court with wonderful expressions of joy it is the day of the Emperours Birth It is the custom that the Neguz should give entertainment to all that will be pleased to accept of his kindness he is the next day after requited with Presents of the most considerable Persons of his Court. This Imperial Court is never fixed in any one place but Marches with the Emperour about 6000 Tents do always pitch about him in such an excellent order that in a moment from the farthermost tent one may come to that of the great Neguz where a strong guard watches about his Person day and night The Souldiers of the Kings guard are very neatly attired and well furnished with Bows and Guns they are mixed at present since the use of Powder was introduced amongst them by the Portugueses Of the Government THe Emperour hath several great Kingdoms that acknowledge his jurisdiction and seven or eight crowned heads that are under him His name is Giam Belul that is Precious Giam Or John a name of the same signification as Illustrious Serenus Excellent c. Titles that we give to our Princes When he writes this is his stile In the name of God the Father Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth of things visible and invisible in the name of God the Son Jesus Christ who is the same with the Father from the beginning of the world Light of Light true God of true God and in the name of God the Holy Spirit who is also a living God proceeding from the Father This Letter you shall receive from a mighty King whose name the Lions do respect by the grace of God I am call'd Athani Tinghib that is the Incense of the Virgin the son of K. David the son of Solomon the Son of the King by the hand of Mary the Son of Naw according to the flesh the son of S. Peter S. Paul according to grace the beloved of God the Pillar of the Faith who hath taken upon him the name of Abraham Emperour of the Great and upper Ethiopia and of large Kingdoms and dominions King of Xoa of the Cafates of Fatigar of Angote of Baru of Baliganze of Adea of Vangue of Goiame where is Nilus source of Damaraa of Vaguemedri of Ambea of Vagne of Tigremahon of Sabaym the Country of the Queen of Saba of Bamagaes and Supream Lord as far as Nubia that confines upon Egypt c. Many Titles and Kingdoms are heapt together to express his Grandeur at present he enjoys but the Titles alone of many of those Kingdoms whiles others do eat up the reversion eleven or twelve of them do remain faithful to him sometimes the Inhabitants are disturbed by their war-like Neighbours but they could never be subdued by any other Prince for his sake they endure the loss of their Goods Estates Children and oft times they are driven into extream Poverty because they cannot leave their lawful Prince but they must also renounce Religion with him before they can be accepted of by their enemies This consideration ties them fast to the Neguz interest and obliges them to be most faithful unto him notwithstanding all their losses The Government of this Great Prince is partly Arbitrary and partly Subject to the written Laws that are contained in two Volums written as they say by the Apostles themselves The first they call Manida the other they name Abethilis they comprehend the Rules of Government relating to right or wrong they further observe much of the politick Law of Moses which he commanded the Jews In those other occasions of which these Books are silent the Emperours or the Judges pleasure and reason passeth for a Law The first Books called Manida and Abethil are full of most excellent Rules and Statutes Some wise man of that Empire composed them for to direct the Prince in the execution of his Office and that they might receive more credit he caused it to be bruited abroad that these books had been found in the ruines of the Church where St. Lycanon who was sent into Ethiopia by St. Philip the Apostle did teach and that they had been composed by the Disciples of our Saviour assembled together in a general Councel Assoon as this religious lye had been divulged every one was desirous to see and hear the Contents of this Book when they saw therefore that the matter was answerable to the fame of it they began really to credit it so that they do as religiously obey the commands of these Books as the Gospels and the word of God When the Emperour dines or sups some small portion of it is read before him after the Musick which in this country is very pleasant and grateful to the ear more than in any other place out of Italy although the instruments upon which they play be not like ours The Emperour hath one Judge called Bikir over all his dominions to judge of matters of right or wrong under him are the Sudh●drie's provincial Judges that are to give up an account of their actions to him they are often removed at the least complaint and others placed in their rooms It is a great disgrace to receive a bribe they all do follow the dictates of reason in pronouncing their sentences in proportioning the penalties according to the nature and hainousness of the offences These Judges have only a power over the people the Clergy and Monks have other Officers and Superintendants that do judge of their matters Besides these inferiour Judges every other year the grand Marshal or Supream Bikir sends men into several Provinces to hearken after the behaviour and examine the deportment of the Judges If any be found guilty of any crime he is severely punished and shamefully thrust out of his Office with a mark of Infamy that renders him incapable of having any publick employment in this Country Such seldom remain there long for the shame and obloquy of the people forces them to be gone and seek other habitations in a remote Country The Bikir hath also his Lieutenants like unto our Colonels disposed of in all the dominions of grand Neguz each Lieutenant gives him account of all the men he is able to provide for the service of the Prince in case of necessity

the Blacks lives a people very deformed and mishapen different from the rest of men not in the main composition of the body but in the disproportion of the parts They do not love to appear amongst persons that have the true form of men necessity constrains them to entertain a Trade which they do in such a strange manner that they are not like to the rest of Nations They inhabit the Country called Guangara and Media it is mountainous and inconvenient for passengers whom they never suffer to go through their dominions The River Niger so full of Gold passeth along their Territories and furnishes them with that Commodity to exchange for those other Commodities that nature requires and that they have not in such plenty as their Neighbours It is a business of difficulty to speak with some of them they are so savage Those that Trade upon the River may Land their Goods and see them afar off but they seldom do shew themselves They are very just in their dealings and will not wrong strangers of a farthing which if they did it might put a stop to their Trade without which they cannot probably live They seem to have some Government amongst them for upon the mountains places are fortified and the passages blockt up and they have been seen to observe a Decorum in their manner of Life and behaviour From this place many Nations of Europe have their Golden dust for the ships go up the River many hundred leagues to Trade with this obscure sort of people who shew themselves afar off leaving with their Merchandise such tokens and signs that may express their demands but they alwayes retreat at the same time into the Woods and will not suffer any to come near This hath been related to me for certain by many eye-witnesses and by persons of Credit and Worth this is a strange sort of people which none of their Neighbours can certainly know Ethiopia yields many other Commodities Hides are very plentiful especially of the wilde Beasts and Buff-skins which in this Country are bigger and thicker than in any other Here are stuffs made of the Bark of the Indian-tree that grows also here in every place the common people are employed to fit it for sale and work Some Spices Drugs and Roots do naturally come forth in this Climate called by the ancients the Torrid Zone The Merchants of Adel and Mozambique and of other places adjoyning to the Sea do enter into the Land in times of Peace to Trade with the Inhabitants and fetch from them their Commodities to convey them afterwards to the Sea-side where the Moors the Arabs and Banyans of the Indies do meet them with the Factors of other Nations to take from them their Goods Now this is the policy of all the Princes that keep the Sea shoar not to suffer an Abyssin unless he be an Apostate to have liberty to Trade out of the Country of the Neguz of whose power they are very jealous least he should recover again the Dominion of the Sea which he hath lost with all his Ships and Sea-port Towns some few years since When he offers to stir all his Neighbours do joyn together to force him into his bounds for he is lookt upon as their common enemy Some nevertheless of the Abyssin Monks have correspondency with the Indians and Chineses but it is only for those Merchandises that are for the supply of their own territories A short Relation of some of their Emperours found in an ancient Ethiopian Record that the Author hath brought with him into Itaty THis Empire is very ancient and was as large in its first beginning the people were warlike incroaching daily upon their Neighbours especially upon those that live in Egypt and about the River Nilus The Egyptians have had continual wars with them In the time of the Pharoes our Emperours were famous Moses the Lawgiver of the children of Israel was the General of Pharaoh or of King of Egypt he was ordered to march with a party of Israelites against Mouchadir Emperour of Ethiopia he readily obeyed and with a small party he routed the great Army of our Emperour not s● much by valour as by the assistance of a divine power the King of Egypt was grown jealous of him and of his people and therefore he sent them to this war hoping to free himself from his fears by the swords of the Ethiopians who were become terrible to all their Neighbours but God caused that which was intended for the mischief of the Israelites to turn to their advantage for by the Victory they purchased unto themselves the esteem and admiration of all their enemies It is true that the King did then begin to vex the Children of Israel with hard burthens and grievous taxes thinking by that means to weaken their spirits and disable them from in●uring either himself or any other but this also turned to their benefit for it procured their freedom and the ensuing miracles that forced it from those that kept them in bondage When the Egyptians were overthrown the Ethiopians had wonderful success against them they subdued all the Country as far as Thebis bordering upon the Red Sea but about thirty years afterwards there rose a King of Egypt that was valiant in war that recovered with his small numbers of men all the dominions belonging to his Predecessors as far as the Mountains where the River Nilus hath a terrible downfall In his race it continued until the time of Cambyses who entered Egypt and conquered it but could never subdue Ethiopia for when he sent his Embassadours to our Emperor they were sent back with a defiance of his Power as he was passing over some of the sandy hills between Ethiopia and Egypt with some of his Troops they lost a great number of men in a storm of wind for they were there buryed alive some of them saved themselves with their King out of the violent storm but this overthrow prevented his coming into our Country where our Emperour expected him with all his people The wind did fight for us against our enemies it saved us the trouble and hazard of venturing against them with our swords In the time of King Solomon our Empire was governed by Queen Maqueda she sent Embassadors to him and afterwards went to visit him her self she was kindly entertained at her return she was brought to bed of a Son which she had by Solomon called Melich she brought Circumcision into the Land and laid the foundations of the Jewish Religion which her Son afterwards when he was come from Jerusalem did establish commanding all people under his command to receive it After him many Kings did Reign in Ethiopia the most famous was Ubsharem Habraini David the 1 Solomon the 1 and many others The Scepter hath always continued in the same race since that time until now Ubsharem was a warlike Prince he conquered all the Provinces as far as the Sea-coast South-wards and made all the Kings his

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. 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