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been right royally treated by King Emanuel and sent 

 back to the Indies, embarked at Goa with Admiral de 

 Segueyra and sailed for Massowah, where he arrived 

 on April 16th, 1520. He then set out for the interior 

 of Abyssinia ; but the fatigues of the voyage had been 

 too much for him, and he died of fever before he could 

 regain King David. Zaga Zaab, an Abyssinian monk, 

 was selected as his successor, and he started for Por- 

 tugal in 1525, the year of the death of Queen Helena. 



David then made preparations for renewing the war 

 with the kingdom of Adel, which had allied itself with 

 the Turkish pashas and generals commanding in Arabia, 

 the Turks sending a contingent which began by re- 

 capturing the island of Zeyla. 



It was customary for a caravan to go every year 

 from Abyssinia to Jerusalem, this caravan which con- 

 sisted of about a thousand pilgrims, priests as well as 

 laymen starting from Hamozem, a small territory only 

 two days' march from Dobarwa and Massowah. The 

 caravan was preceded by trumpeters, and crossed the 

 Desert by way of Suakim without meeting with any 

 rebuif. But in the year following the conquest of Egypt 

 by the Sultan Selim, when the reign of the Mameluke 

 dynasty ended the Abbot Azerata- Christ os was conduct- 

 ing fifteen hundred pilgrims to Jerusalem, and on their 

 return, having been met by a body of Selim' s troops, 

 most of them were massacred and the rest driven into 

 the Desert, where they perished of hunger and thirst. 

 In 1525 another caravan assembled at Hamozem. It 



