Chapter M: Maffudi, character of him, ii. 115

---- defeated by Naod, ii. 123

---- rewarded by the Turks, ii. 136

---- slain, ii. 140

Mahomet pretends to be a prophet, i. 520

Mahomet Bey Abou Dahab, interview with him, iv. 625

---- permits the English to trade to Suez, iv. 633

Maitsha, account of that province, iii. 546 and iv. 23

Marble mountains, i. 187

Mariam Barea, associated with the party of the Iteghe, ii. 671

---- quarrels with Michael, ii. 674

---- deprived of his government, in 675

---- his character, ii. 676

---- remonstrates against the king’s conduct, ii. 677

---- defeats the Galla, ii. 680

---- defeated by Michael, ii. 693

---- put to death by the king, ii. 695

Masuah, island, iii. 1

---- diseases, iii. 33

---- trade and music, iii. 51, 52

Menas, king, banishes the Portuguese priests, ii. 210

Menilek son of Solomon, i. 480

Meroe when built, i. 378

---- island, situation of, iii. 644, and iv. 539

Michael Suhul, governor of Tigre, refuses to obey the king’s orders,
ii. 649

---- taken prisoner, ii. 650

---- advances in the king’s favour, ii. 652

---- restored to his government, ii. 654

---- called by the king to defend him against Mariam Barea, ii. 680

---- marches to Gondar, ii. 681

---- restores order in the capital, ii. 684

---- marches against Mariam Barea, ii. 686

---- defeats him, ii. 693

---- rupture with the king, ii. 704

---- defeats Fasil, ii. 705

---- assassinates the king, ii. 706

---- puts Hannes II. to death, ii. 709

---- defeats Fasil, ii. 715

---- author’s first interview with him, iii. 217

Michael Suhul his character, vol iii. p. 226

---- conspiracy formed against him, iii. 375

---- forced to leave Gondar, iii. 479

---- cruelty on his return to Gondar, iv. 72, 5

---- impolitic conduct, iv. 111

---- defeats Gusho and Powussen at Serbraxos, iv. 144

---- retreats to Gondar, iv. 224

---- made prisoner, iii. 240

Mocha, meaning of that name, i. 442

Mohannan, the ancient Memphis, i. 54

Montes Lunæ of the ancients, i. 378

Moroc, description of, appen. 178

Mudgid cuts off the royal family at Wechne, ii. 169

N.

Nacueta Laab resigns the crown of Abyssinia, i. 532

Nagashi what, i. 524

Narea, kingdom, account of, ii. 312

Nearchus sails from India to the Persian Gulf, i. 455

---- enters the Red Sea, i. 456

Nebuchadnezzar, dispute about his canonization, iii. 367

Nero attempts to discover the source of the Nile, iii. 613

Niger, cause of its increase, iii. 719

---- not a branch of the Nile, iii. 720

Nile description of the cataract above Syene, i. 156

---- discovery of its sources, iii. 580

---- attempted by the ancients, iii. 606

---- description of its sources, iii. 634

---- course of that river, iii. 644

---- names, iii. 654

---- cause of its inundation iii. 658

---- inquiry if possible to change its course, iii. 712

---- great cataract, iii. 425

---- memorable passage of, iii. 448

Nilometer, iii. 690

---- changed by Omar, iii. 716

Norden’s voyage, account of, iii. 630

Nuba, their character, iv. 419

---- religion, iv. 420

---- author kindly received by them, iv. 423

Nucta, iii. 716

O.

Omar conquers Egypt, iii. 689

Ombi, men-eaters, i. 142

Ophir, voyage to, account of, i. 433

Osiris not the sun, but the dog-star, i. 412

Oustas usurps the throne, ii. 540

---- favourable to the Catholic religion, ii. 569

---- deposed, ii. 572

P.

Paez Peter enters Abyssinia, ii. 244

---- converts Za Denghel, ii. 245

---- builds a convent at Gorgora, ii. 266

---- converts Socinios, ii. 344

---- his death and character, ii. 344

---- his pretensions to discover the source of the Nile confuted,
iii. 617

Palestine, various nations fled from it, i. 399

Palmyra, ruins, introd. 57

Papyrus, ships made of it, i. 370

---- description of it, app. 1

Petronius Arbiter improves Egypt, iii. 696

Polygamy, cause of its origin, i. 281

Poncet sent to Abyssinia, ii. 467

---- account of his travels, ii. 469

---- recovers the king of Abyssinia, ii. 478

Poncet, his journal vindicated, vol. ii. p. 492

Portugal, attempts to discover the East Indies, ii. 96

---- sends an embassy to Abyssinia, ii. 103

---- receives an embassy from Abyssinia, ii. 133

---- sends a reinforcement to David III., ii. 142

---- unsuccessful issue of the expedition, ii. 157

---- sends a second reinforcement to the king of Abyssinia, ii. 181

Pox, small, when introduced, i. 514

Ptolemy I. encourages the Indian trade, i. 457

---- II. his magnificent procession, i. 458

---- invades Ethiopia, i. 462

---- III. conquers Ethiopia, i. 463

R.

Rachamah, description of, appen. 163

Rack tree description of, appen. 44

Ras el Feel, the author made governor of that province, iii. 364

Ras Sem account of, Introd. 39

Red Sea, cause of that name, i. 237

Rhinoceros, hunting of him described, iv. 296

---- description of that animal, appen. 85

Roderigo de Lima attempts to enter Abyssinia, iii. 628

Rosetto, i. 20

Roule M. le Noir sent to Abyssinia, ii. 501

---- imprudent conduct at Sennaar, ii. 507

---- assassinated, ii. 508

S.

Saba, queen of, i. 471

---- visits Jerusalem, i. 472

---- has a son to Solomon, i. 476

---- founds the Abyssinian Monarchy, i. 476

Salama Abba, character of, iii, 201

----- condemned and executed, iv. 68

Samen, province of Abyssinia, iii. 252

Sancaho, iv. 376

Sand, pillars of, iv. 553-6

Sassa, append. 27

Sennaar, author arrives there, iv. 428

---- character of its king, iv. 430

---- account of his wives, iv. 418

---- treacherous conduct to the author, iv. 453

---- list of its kings, iv. 464

---- government, iv. 479

---- forces, iv. 480

---- climate, diseases, iv. 481

Serbraxos, first battle of, iv. 140

---- second battle of, iv. 165

---- third battle of, iv. 199

Sesostris improves Egypt, i. 368

Shangalla, account of that nation, ii. 546

---- division of their country, iv. 327

Shaw, Dr. his mistake about Egypt, iii. 700

Shalaka Welled Amlac, account of him, iv. 2

---- ---- ---- author’s reception at his house, iv. 6

Shell-fish found in the desert, iv. 339

Sheregrig, description of, append. 182

Shepherds, account of that people, i. 384

---- their various names, i. 385

---- habitation, i. 386

---- subdue Egypt, i. 395

Shoa, kingdom, iii. 255

Sid el Coom, iv. 460

Simoom, description of that poisonous wind, iv. 341

Sire, town of, iii. 152

---- province of Abyssinia, iii. 252

Sittinia, queen, iv. 531

Slave-trade, its origin, i. 392

Socinios claims the crown, ii. 250

---- defeats his rival Jacob, 259

---- the Galla, 275

Socinios crowned at Axum, ii. 278

---- expedition against Sennaar, ii. 298

---- subdues Fatima queen of the Shepherds, ii. 302

---- converted to the Catholic religion, ii. 308

---- sends ambassadors to Rome, ii. 309

---- openly professes the Catholic religion, ii. 344

---- bigotted conduct, ii. 552

---- limits the power of the Catholics, ii. 359

---- grants the Abyssinians full exercise of their own religion,
ii. 396

---- death and character, ii. 397

Sofala, the Ophir of the ancients, i. 438

Spaitla, Introd. 30

Strabo, his account of Meroe, iv. 544

Suez, directions how to sail there, i. 223

Sugar canes, plantations of them in Upper Egypt, i. 81

Syene, or Assouan, i. 154

---- assumed by Eratosthenes for measuring an arch of the meridian,
i. 160

T.

Tacazze river, iii. 156, 7

---- why called Siris, i. 379

Taranta, mountain, iii. 76

Tarshish, i. 439

Tecla Haimanout I. writes in favour of Du Roule, ii. 517

---- quells a rebellion, ii. 530

---- assassinated, ii. 532

---- II. his character, ii. 709

---- the author’s first interview with him, iii. 230

---- cruelty, iv. 65

---- dangerous situation at Serbraxos, iv. 169

Tcherkin, iv. 293

Teawa, description of it, iv. 350

Teff, appen. 76

Terfowey wells, iv. 465

---- dangerous situation of the author there, iv. 566

Tesfos Ayto, governor of Samen, joins Gusho, iv. 189

---- his army cut off, iv. 192

Thebes when built, i. 380

---- destroyed by the Shepherds, i. 394

---- ruins of, i. 122

---- sepulchres, i. 125

---- description of two harps found there, i. 130

Theodorus, king, opinion about him, ii. 64

Tifilis executes the regicides, ii. 534

---- defeats the rebel Tigi, ii. 532

Tigre, province, iii. 251

Time, Abyssinian manner of computing it, iii. 351

Tot, who, i. 416

Towash Mahomet, iv. 490

---- slain in the desert, iv. 586

---- account of him, iv. 610

Trade-winds, i. 431

Troglodyte Cushites, their settlement, i. 376

---- their progress, i. 383

Tunis, Introd. i. 21

Tyre, Introd. i. 59

Tzana Lake, description of, iii. 386

W.

Waalia, append. 186

Waldubba, monks of, iii. 177

Walkuffa, append. 67

Wanzey tree, account of, app. 54

War of the Elephant, i. 510

Wechne, royal family banished there, ii. 415

Welleta Girgis, or Socinios, made king, iii. 482

---- author interview with him, iv. 46

Welleta Girgis flies from Gondar, iv. 51

Welled Sidi Boogannim, tribe of Arabs, introd. 24

Woodage Asahel, his character, iii. 421

---- reveals Fasil’s plans, iv. 32

---- bravery, iv. 200

---- slain, iv. 201

Wooginoos, or Brucea Antidysenterica, app. 69

Y.

Yambo, i. 247

Yasine, his attention to the author, iv. 329

Yasous I. his expedition to Wechne, ii. 428

---- defeats the Galla, ii. 434

---- his son rebels against him, ii. 513

---- death and character, ii. 516

Yasous II. rebellion in the beginning of his reign, ii. 616

---- defeats the Arabs, ii. 632

---- addicted to building, ii. 634

---- attacks Sennaar, ii. 636

---- defeated, ii. 639

---- irritated at the Naybe of Masuah, ii. 646

---- summons Michael Suhul to Gondar, ii. 649

---- takes him prisoner, ii. 650

---- makes a second expedition against Sennaar, ii. 655

Yasous Amha, prince of Shoa, iv. 93

---- gives the author the annals of Shoa, iv. 96

---- his account of the nations near Shoa, iv. 97

Yasous, Kefla, discovers Fasil’s stratagem, iii. 453

---- marches to Delakus, iii. 456

---- crosses the Nile, iii. 457

Yemen once subject to Abyssinia, i. 518

Z.

Za Denghel restored to the throne, ii, 242

---- converted to the Catholic faith, ii. 245

Za Selasse rebels, ii. 247

---- defeats and slays Za Denghel, ii. 250

---- defeated, ii. 257

---- joins Socinios, ii. 258

---- death and character, ii. 268, 9

Zague, prince of, slain, ii. 689

Zara Jacob, sends ambassadors to the council of Florence, ii. 69

---- persecutes the idolaters in Abyssinia, ii. 70

Zebee river, ii. 318

Zerah, i. 406

Zipporah, wife of Moses, i. 406

Zumrud, Jibbel, voyage there, i. 204

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Signifying a fig-tree, from the multitude of figs which grow round the trunk.

[2] Sir Joseph Banks.

[3] Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 11.

[4] Melch. Guilandin. Philosoph. and Medic. Lausanne, Ann. 1576 8vo.

[5] Anac. Ode. iv.

[6] Theoph. Hist. plant. lib. iv. cap. 9.

[7] Joseph. lib. xii. p. 405.

[8] Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 13. cap. 11.

[9] Plutarch in Agesilao.

[10] Athen. lib. 15.

[11] Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 11.

[12] Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 21.

[13] Herodot. lib. xi.

[14] Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 12.

[15] Plin. lib. xiii.cap. 13.

[16] Sir Joseph Banks shewed me a slip of paper which he got from an Italian gentleman, made, if I remember, of a cyperus found in the river or lake of Thrasymene. I do not recollect the process, but the paper itself was infinitely superior to any I had seen attempted, and seemed to possess a great portion of flexibility, and was more likely to answer the purposes of paper than even the old Egyptian, if it had been dressed up and finished.

[17] Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 13.

[18] Plin. lib. xiii. cap. 13.

[19] Scruples about cleanness.

[20] Plin. lib. 13. ut. sup.

[21] Plin. lib. xiii. cap. 11.

[22] Ibid. id.

[23] Mr Adamson, interpreter to the French factory of Seide, a man of great merit and knowledge in natural history, brother to the naturalist of that name, who has wrote the voyage to Senegal, and particularly an account of the shells of those seas, full of barbarous words, and liberal ideas.

[24] Dec. 22d, 1610.

[25] Purchas, chap. xi. §. 3.

[26] Joseph. Antiquit. lib. v.

[27] Gen. chap. xxxvii. ver. 25.

[28] Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xii. cap. 25.

[29] They were murdered at Azab, see vol. I. p. 319.

[30] Theophrast. hist. plants, lib. iii. cap. 8. lib. iv. cap. 2. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xiii. cap. 9. J. Bauh. lib. iii. cap. 86.

[31] Psalm xcii. ver. 10.

[32] Vol. iii. p. 220.

[33] Numb. chap. xxiii. ver. 22.

[34] Job, chap. xxxix, ver. 9.

[35] Job, chap. xxxix. ver. 10.

[36] Isaiah, chap. xxxiv. ver. 7.

[37] Isaiah, chap. vii. ver. 18. and 19.

[38] Exod. chap. viii. ver. 22.

[39] Deut. chap. xxxiii. 17. Psalm xxii. 21.

[40] This shews that the Mosaic pavement of Præneste is not a record of Alexander’s expedition into India, as Doctor Shaw has pretended, sect. vii. p. 423.

[41] Martial de Spectac.

[42] See Supplement to Chambers’s Dict.

[43] Vid. Buffon Hist. rhinoceros, p. 225. Edwards, p. 25. and 26.

[44] Chardin, tom. iii. p. 45.

[45] Tran. Phlisoph. No. 470.

[46] Boch. vol. I. cap. xxxiii.

[47] Buffon vol. IX. 4to.

[48] Clem. Alexan. lib. ii. Pædagog. cap. 10.

[49] Kemp. p. 411. and 412.

[50] Herod. Melp. sect. 192.

[51] Theoph. apud Elian. Hist. Anim. lib. xv. cap. 26.

[52] Arist. de Mareb. Egypt. lib. vi.

[53] Isaiah, chap. xvi. ver. 17.

[54] Sparman, vol. II. p. 186.

[55] Supplement to Tom. iii. p. 148.

[56] Vol. I. p. 248.

[57] Sparman’s voyage to the Cape, vol. ii. p. 185.

[58] P. 185.

[59] Sparman, vol. II. p. 185.

[60] Clem. 1. part 1.

[61] Vid. Epist J. Caii, Angli ad Gesnerum.

[62] Meninx Ins.

[63] Psalm civ. ver. 18.

[64] Prov. chap. xxx. ver. 24.

[65] Prov. chap. xxx. ver. 26.

[66] Chap. iii. ver. 26.

[67] Chap. xlix. ver. 15.

[68] Chap. iv. ver. 10.

[69] Hieroglyph. lib. i. cap. ix.

[70] Plut. In quest. Rom. quest. 93.

[71] Lib. xvii.

[72] Chil. 12. hist. 439.

[73] In Valentin. cap. 10.

[74] Lib. i. Contra Celsum.

[75] In hexaem homil. 8.

[76] In hexaem, page 27.

[77] Deut. chap. xiv. ver. 13.

[78] Exod. chap. xix. ver. 4.

[79] Buffon, Plan. Enlum. 389.

[80] Vide Plutarch de Iside.

[81] Sparman’s voyage, vol. ii. p. 192.

[82] Buffon, plan. enlum. 626.

[83] Buffon, plan. enlum. 326.

[84] Vol. i. book 2. p. 388.

[85] Chap. xli. ver. 26.

[86] Prosp. Alpin. lib. iv. cap. 4.

[87] Jerem. chap. viii. ver. 17.

[88] Psalm ix. ver. 13.

[89] It is to be observed here, it is the Greek text that calls it Basilisc. The Hebrew for the most part calls it Tsepha, which are a species of serpents real and known. Our English translation, very improperly, renders it Cockatrice; a fabulous animal, that never did exist. I shall only further observe, that the basilisc, in scripture, would seem to be a snake, not a viper, as there are frequent mention made of their eggs, as in Isaiah, chap. lix. ver. 5. whereas, it is known to be the characteristic of the viper to bring forth living young.

[90] Elian. Hist. lib. i. cap. 25. Horia. hieroglyph. lib. ii. chap. 65.

[91] Lucan. lib. ix.

[92] Mart. lib. xii. and lxvii. epig.

[93] Juv. sat. xi.

[94] Vell. Pat. lib. ii. cap. 56.

[95] See Proverbs, chap. xxxi. verse 10. But in Job, where all the variety of precious stones are mentioned, the translator is forced, as it were unwillingly, to render Peninim pearls, as he ought indeed to have done in many other places where it occurs. Job, chap. xxviii. verse 18.

[96] Bochart reads this Lala falsely, mistaking the vowel point _a_ for _u_, but there is no such word in Arabic.

[97] The Spaniards have no gold ducats, so this must have been silver, value about a crown, so that the sum-total was L. 10 Sterling.

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