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DAVID n. 



From 1380 to 1409^ 



WEDEM ASFERI was fucceeded by his brother David, 

 Saif Araad's fecond fon. This prince's reign is re- 

 markable in the annals of the church of Abyffinia, becaufe, 

 at this time, a piece of the true crofs, on which our Saviour 

 died, was brought hither from Jcrufalem ; and, in memory 

 of this great event, the king ordered the facerdotal veil, or 

 capa, which was before plain, to be embroidered with 

 flowers.. 



This king, after reigning twenty-nine years, one day view->- 

 ing a favourite, but vicious horfe, received fo violent a kick 

 upon his head that it fra&ured his ikull, fo that he died up- 

 on the fpot, and was buried in the great ifland of Dek ira- 

 the lake Dembea, or Tzana, 



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