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From 1183 to i3iz. 

 ^kk Sttccej/ion of Princes-^Memotrs of thefe Reigns defiaent. . 



TO I'con Amlac fucceeded Igba Sion, and after him five 

 other princes, his brothers, Bahar Segued, Tzenaf Se- 

 gued, Jan Segued, Hafeb Araad, and Kedem Segued, all in 

 five years. So quick a fucceilion in io few years feems to 

 mark very unfettled times. Whether it was a civil war 

 among themfelves that brought thefe reigns to fo* fpeedy a. 

 conclufion, or whether it was that the Moorifh ftates in 

 Adel had grown in power, and fought fuccefsfully againfl 

 them, we do not know. One thing only we are certain of, 

 that jio molefl:ation was offered by the late royal family of 

 Lafta, who continued in peace, and firm in the obfervatioii : 

 of their treaty, I therefore am inclined to think, that a civil : 

 war among the brothers was the occafion of the quick 

 fucceffion of fo many princes ; and that in the time when 

 the kingdom was weakened by this calamity, the ftates of 

 Adel, grown rich and powerful, had improved the occafion, 

 and feized upon all that territory from Azab to Mclinda, 

 and cut off the Abyflinians entirely from the fea-coaft, and 

 from an opportunity of trading diredlly with India from 

 the ports fituated upon the ocean. And my reafon is, that, 

 in- a reign which fpcedily follows, we find .the kingdom of 



Adel 



