114 TRAVELS. TO DiaCOVEK 



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I S-C A N D E R, OR A L E X A N D E R,. 



From 1478 to i495' 



Kfcander declares War with Adel—Good ConduEiofthe King — Betrayed 

 and murdered by Za Saluce, 



AS foon as the king Baeda Mariana was dead, the hiftory 

 of Abyffinia informs us, that a tumukuous meeting of 

 the nobles brought from the mountain of Geflien the queen 

 Romana, with her fon Ifcander, who upon his arrival was 

 crowned without any oppofition. 



It is to be obferved in the AbyfTmian annals, that very 

 frequent minorities happen.. A queen-mother, or regent^, 

 with two or three of the greateft intereft at court, are, du- 

 ring the minority, in pofTeffion of the king's perfon, and go- 

 vern in his name. The tranfadions of this minority, too, 

 are as carefully inferted in the annals of the kingdom as 

 any other part of the fubfequent government, but as the 

 whole of thefe minorities are but one continued chain of 

 quarrels, plots, and treachery, as foon as the king comes of 

 age, the greateft part of this reign of- his minifters is can-, 

 celled, as being the ads of fubjeet»,.and. not worthy to be 



infer.te.d: 



