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have often before fpoken, and mall have further occafion in, 

 the fequel. 



The Arabs of ; Sennaar that are cm bad terms with the 

 governor of Atbara, fly hither acrofs the defert to avoid the 

 rapine and violence of that cruel tyrant. . The arrival of 

 thefe produces in an inftant the greater! plenty at Ras el 

 I eel ; markets are held everywhere ; cattle of all kinds, milk, , 

 butter, elephants teeth,. hides, and feveral. other commodi- 

 ties, are fold to a great amount. . 



The Arabs are of many different tribes ; the chief are the 

 Daveina, then the Nile. Thefe, befides getting a good mar- 

 ket, and food for their cattle and protection for themfelves, , 

 have this great additional advantage, they efcape the Fly,, 

 and confequently are not pillaged, as the reft of the Arabs 

 in Atbara are, when changing abodes to avoid the havock 

 made by that infect. In return for this, they conftantly 

 bring horfes from Atbara, below Sennaar, for the king's 

 own ufe, and for fuch of his cavalry who are armed with 

 coats of mail, no Abyffinian horfe, or very few at leaft, bet- 

 ing capable of that burden. 



Ayto Confu had many diftricts of land from his father- 

 Kafmati Netcho, as well as fome belonging to his mother. 

 Ozoro Either, which lay upon that frontier ; it was called- 

 Ras el Feel, and had a fendick and nagareet, but, as it was 

 governed always by a deputy who was a Mahometan, it 

 had no rank among the great governments of the ftate. 

 Befides thefe lands, the patrimony of Confu, Ras Michael 

 had given him more, and with them this government, 

 young as he was, from favour to his mother Ozoro Either. 



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