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Upon his death the people unanimoufly gave to him the 

 name of Tallac, which Signifies the Great \ a name he has ever 

 fince enjoyed unimpeached in the Abyffinian annals, or hi- 

 itbry of his country, from the which this his reign is taken, 



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TECLA HAIMANOUT X, 



From 1704 to 1706. , 



Writes in Favour vfDu. Roule — Defeats the Rebels— Is ajajjinated wbfk 



hunting. , 



ELLAS the Armenian, of whom we have already fpokeir, 

 and who was charged with letters of protection from 

 Yafous to meet M. du Roule at Sennaar, had reached within 

 three days journey of that capital when he heard that king 

 Yafous was anauinated. Terrified, at the news, he returned 

 in the. utmoft haflte to Gondar, and prefentcd the letters, 

 which had been written by Yafous, to be renewed by his 

 fon, king Tecla Haimanout. . Tecla Haimanout read his far- 

 ther's letters, and approved of their contents, ordering them 

 to be copied in his own name ; and Elias without delay fet : 

 out with them. I have inferted a tranllation of thefe let- 

 ters, which were originally written in Arabic, and feem to - 



me 



