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under the Sherriffe of Mecca and the Arabian princes. Thefe 

 are the people who at particular times have appeared in Eu- 

 rope, and who have been flraightway taken for, and treated; 

 as Ambafladors. 



More fouthward and weftward are the kingdoms of Mara,. 

 Worgla, and Pagoma, fmall principalities of fixed habita- 

 tions by the fea, at times free, at others dependent upon 

 Adel ; and, to the fouth of thefe, in the fame flat country, is 

 Hadea, whofe capital is Harar, and governed by a prince, 

 who is a Gibberti likewife ; and who, by marrying a Sher- 

 riffa, or female defcendant of Mahomet, is now reckoned a 

 Sherriffe or noble of Mahomet's family, diflinguiflied by. 

 his wearing habits, for the moft part green, and above all 

 a grafs-green turban, a mark of hatred to Chriflianity. 



The Gibbertis, then, are the princes and merchants of 

 this country, converted to the Mahometan faith foon after 

 the death of Mahomet, when the Baharnagafli (as we have 

 already ftated) revolted from the empire of the Abyilinians,, 

 in whofe hands all the riches of the country are centered. 

 The black inhabitants are only their fubjeits, hewers of 

 wood and drawers of water, who ferve them in their fami- 

 lies at home, take care of their camels when employed in 

 caravans abroad, and. who make the principal part of their, 

 tbrces in the field. 



But there are other inhabitants ftill befides thefe Gib- 

 bertis and native blacks, whom we muft not confound with 

 fehe indigenous of this country, how much foever they may 

 lefemble them. The lirft of thefe are by the Portugucfc 

 feillorians called Moors, who are merchants from the weft of 



Africa.. 



