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No fooner wa* this intelligence from Gimmel-eddin 

 publillied> than a kind of frenzy feized the people of 

 Adel • they ran tumnkuoufly to arms, and, with flirieks 

 and adjurations, demanded to be led immediately a- 

 gainft the Abyffinians, for they no longer defired to live 

 upon fuch terms. 



There was among the leading men of the Moors one 

 Saleh, chief of a fmall diib-id called Caffi,by birth a Sher- 

 riffe, I e. one of the race of Mahomet, and who, to the nobi- 

 lity of his bn-th, joined the holinefs of his characTier. He was 

 Imam, as it is called, or high prh:/l of the Moors, and, for both 

 thefe reafons, held in the greateft cdimation among them. 

 This man undertook, by his perfonal influence, to unite all 

 the Moorifh Hates in a common league. For it is to be ob- 

 ferved, that, though religion was very powerful in uniting 

 thefe Moors againft the Chrillians, yet the love of gain, and 

 jealoufies of commerce, perpetually kept a party alive that 

 favoured the king for their own intcrci\, in the very heart of 

 the Moorilh confederacies and councils. To overcome this 

 was the objcd of Saleh, and he fucceeded beyond cxpeda- 

 tion, as fixtcen kings brought 40,000 men into the field un- 

 der their feveral leaders ; but the chief command was given 

 to tlie king of Add. 



I MUST put the reader in mind that I am tranflating an 

 Abvffinian hiilorian. Thefe, then, whom this chronicle 

 llilcs Kings, muil be confulcrcd as being only hereditary and 

 independent chiefs, not tributary to AbyiTinia. Their names 

 are Adel, Mara, Bakla, Haggara, Fadife, Gadai, Nagal, Zuba, 

 Harlar, Hobal, Hangila,Tarfhilh, Ain, Ilbiro, Zeyla, and Elle. 

 Now, when we confider that thcfc fjx^cen kings brought 



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