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cotton cloths, ftibium, beads, and incenfe, are the articles 

 with which their foreign trade to Angola, and the kingdoms 

 on the Atlantic, is carried on. 



The Nareans are exceedingly brave. Though they have 

 been conquered, and driven out of the low country, it has, 

 been by multitudes — nation after nation pouring in upon 

 them with a number of horfe to which they are perfect, 

 flrangers : But now, confined to the mountains, and fur-, 

 rounded by their marfhes and woods, they defpife all fur-, 

 ther attempts of the Galla, and drive them from their fron^ 

 tiers whenever they approach too near. 



In thefe fkirmifhes, or in fmall robbing parties, thofe Na^ 

 reans are taken, whom the Mahometan merchants fell at, 

 Gondar. At Conllantinople, India, or Cairo, the women are 

 more efteemed as flaves than thofe of any other part of the 

 world, and the men are reckoned faithful, adive, and intelli=. 

 gent. Both fexes are remarkable for a chearful, kind difpo=. 

 fition, and, if properly treated, foon attach themfelves invio-. 

 lably to their mailers. The language of Narea and CafFa is 

 peculiar to that country, and is not a diale<5t of any neigh-=. 

 bouring nation, 



Antonio Fernandes in this journey, feeking to go to 

 India by Melinda in company with Fecur Egzie ambafladori. 

 palled through this country ; but none of the Jefuits ever 

 went to Narea with a view of converting the people, at 

 which I have been often furprifed. There was enough of 

 gold and ignorance to have allured them. That foftnefs and 

 fimplicity of manners for which the Nareans are remarkable, 

 iheir a,ffe(5lion for their mailers and fuperiors, and firm at- 

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