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ded with one or more villages to furnifh him with whac 

 articles he may need, without being obliged to have recourle 

 to the king or his minifters for every neceflary. Amha 

 Yafous, prince of Shoa, had a large and a royal village, Em- 

 fras, given him to fupply him with food for his table ; he 

 had another village in Karoota for wine ; a village in Dem- 

 bea, the king's own province, for his wheat ; and another in 

 Begemder for cotton cloths for his fervants ; and fo of the 

 reft. After I was in the king's fervice I had the villages 

 that belonged to the polls I occupied; and one called Geefh, 

 in which arifes the fources of the Nile, a village of about 

 1 8 houfes, given me by the king at my own requeft ; for I 

 might have had a better to furnifh me with honey, and con- 

 firmed to me by the rebel Waragna Fafil, who never fuffer- 

 ed me to grow rich by my rents, having never allowed me 

 to receive but two large jars, fo bitter with lupines that 

 they were of no fort of ufe to me. I was a gentle matter, nor 

 ever likely to be opulent from the revenues of that coun- 

 try ; and more efpecially fo, as I had under me, as my lieu,, 

 tenant*, an officer commanding the horfe, whofe thoughts 

 were much more upon Jerufalem and the holy fcpulchre 

 than any gains he could get in Abyllinia by his employ- 

 ments. 



Thucydides f informs us, that Themiftocles had received' 

 great gifts from Artaxerxes king of Perfia, when fettled at 

 Magnefia ; the king had given him that city for bread, Lamp- 



facus 



* Ammonios, Billetana Gueta to Aj'to Confu. 

 t Thucyd. lib. i. Strabo, lib. xiv. Theod. Sic. lib. xu. 



