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CLAUDIUS, OR ATZENAF SEGUED. 



From 1540 to 1559. 



Pro/per ous Beglmi'tng of Claudius's Reign — ChriJIopber de Gam a lauds 

 mAbyJfmia — Prevented by the rainy Seafon from joining the King — 

 Battle of Ainal— Battle of Offalo — Chrifophcr de Gamafahi — BaUk 

 of Ifaacs Bet — Moors defeated^ and their General flain — Ahyjfinian 

 Army defeated — Claudius fain — Remarkable Behaviour of Nur, Go' 

 vcrnor of Zeyla^ General of the Moors, 



CLAUDIUS fuccecdcd his father David III. being yet 

 young, and found the empire in circumftances that 

 would have required an old and experienced prince. But, 

 though young, he pofTcfTed thoic graceful and affable man- 

 ners which, at tirll fight, attached people of all forts to him. 

 He had been tutored with great care by the emprefs Helena, 

 was expert in all warlike exercifes, and brave beyond his 

 years. — So fay the Ab)'ffinian annals ; and though 1 have not 

 thought myfelf warranted to depart from the letter of the 

 context, yet it is my duty to the reader to fhew him how 

 this could not be. 



Claudius was born about the 1522 ; the emprefs Helena 

 died ill 1525. From this it is plain, the firft three years of 



I . his- 



