4 iS N TRAVELS TO DISCOVER: 



Except the events which I have already recorded, there? 

 is .nothing farther in this long reign worthy of being infill- 

 ed upon ; the early inroads of the Galla, in plundering par- 

 ties, and the feditions and- revolts of the Agows from the: 

 oppreilion and extortion of their governors,, were fuch as we' 

 find in every reign ; and in all thefe Facilidas was victorious ^ 

 whilftthe Hancalha and Zeegam were greatly weakened in, 

 thefe campaign s._. 



Facilidas was taken ill at Gondar, in the end of : O&0-~ 

 ber, of a difeafe which, from its firil appearance, he thought 

 would prove mortal. He, therefore,^ fent to his eldeft fon> 

 Hannes, whom he had conftantry kept with him, and who> 

 was now of age to govern, and recommended to him his* 

 kingdom, and the perfevering in the ancient religion. He; 

 died the 30th of September 1665, in great peace and compo-? 

 £ure of mind, and they buried him at Azazo. . 



If we are obliged to give his father the preference, from?: 

 the greater variety of trials which he underwent, we mult 

 in juftice allow, that, after his father, Facilidas was the 

 greateil king that ever fat upon the Abyffinian throne. He 

 had every good quality necenary~to conftitute a great prince^ 

 without any alloy or mixture, that, upon fo much provoca-: 

 tion as he had, might have milled, him to be a bad one. He 

 was calm, difpaffionate, and courteous in his be ha viom\\ 

 In the very difficult part he had to- aft between his father 

 and the nation, the necellities of the times had taught him 

 a degree of referve, which, if it was not natural, was not 

 therefore the lefs ufef ul to him. He was in his own perfon 

 the braveft foldier of his time, and always expofed himfelf 

 i& proportion as the occafion was important* 



