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DAVID II. 



From 138010 1409, 



WEDEM ASFERI was fucceeded by his brother David, 

 Saif Araad's fecond fon. This prince's reign is re- 

 markable in the annals of the church of Abyffinia, bccaufe, 

 at this time, a piece of the true crofs, on which our Saviour 

 died, was brought hither from Jerufalem ; and, in memory 

 of this great event, the king ordered the Hiccrdotal vefl:, or 

 capa, which was before plain, to be embroidered with 

 flowers. 



This king, afterreigning twenty-nine years, one day view- 

 ing a favourite, biu vicious horfe, received fo violent a kick 

 upon his head that it fractured his fkull, fo that he died up- 

 on the fpot, and was buried in the great ifland of Dek in. 

 the lake Dcmbca, or Tzana. 



THEODORUS.. 



