THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 465 



Although thefe kings began with a very remaikablc 

 conqueft, it does not appear they added much to their 

 kingdom afterwards. Ounfa, fon of Nafler, is faid to have 

 firft fubdued the province of Fazuclo. I Ihall but make 

 three obfervations upon this Hil, which is undoubtedly au- 

 thentic. The firft is, that this monarchy having been efta- 

 bhlhed in the 1504, it rauft anfwer to the 9th year of the 

 reign of Naod in the Abylhnian annals, as that prince began 

 to reign in 1495. — The fecond is, that Tecla Haimanout, the 

 fon of Yafous the Great, writing to Baady el Achmer, or the 

 White, who was the fon of Ounfa, about the murder of M. 

 du Roule the French Amballador, in the beginning of this 

 century, fpeaks of the ancient friendihip that had fubfifted 

 between the kings of AbyfTmia and thofe of Sennaar, ever 

 fmce the reign of Kim, whom he mentions as one of 

 Baady's remote predecellbrs on the throne of Sennaar. Now, 

 in the whole lill of kings we have jufl given, we do not 

 find one of the name of Kim ; nor is there one word 

 mentioned of a king of Sennaar, or a treaty with him, 

 in the whole annals of Abyflinia, rill the beginning of 

 Socinios's reign. I therefore imagine that the Kim*, 

 which Tecla Haimanout informs us his predecelTors 

 correfponded with in ancient tim.es, was a prince, who, 

 imder the command of the Caliph of Cairowan, in the 

 kingdom of Tunis in Africa, took Cairo and fortified it, 

 by lurrounding it wich a ftrong wall, and who reigned, by 

 himfelf and fucceffors, 100 years, from 998 to 1101, when 

 Hadcc, the lall prince of that race, was ilain by Sahdan, firft 



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* Vid. Matmol, torn. I p. 274. 



