THE SOURCE OF THE NIL® 465 
Attuoucu thefe kings began with a very remarkable 
conqueft, it does net appear they added much -to their 
kingdom afterwards. -Ounfa, fon of Naffer, is faid to have 
firft fubdued the province of Fazuclo. I fhall but make 
three obfervations upon this lift, which is undoubtedly au- 
thentic. The firft is, that this monarchy having been efta- 
blithed in the 1504, it muft anfwer to the 9th year of the 
reign of Naod in the Abyflinian 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 Ambaffador, in the beginning of this 
century, {peaks of the ancient friendfhip that had fubfifted 
between the kings of Abyffinia and thofe of Sennaar, ever 
fince the reign of Kim, whom he mentions as one of 
Baady’s remote predeceffors on the throne.of Sennaar. Now, 
in the whole lift of kings we have juft 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, till the beginning of 
Socinios’s reign. I therefore imagine that the Kim *, 
which Tecla Haimanout informs us his predeceflors 
correfponded with in ancient times,:was a prince, who, 
under the command of the Caliph of Cairowan, in the 
kingdom of Tunis in Africa, took Cairo and fortified it, 
by furrounding it with a ftrong wall, and who reigned, by 
himfelf and fucceffors, 100 years, from.gg8 to 1101, when 
Hadec, the laft prince of that race, was flain by Salidan, firft 
Vor IV. 3N Soldan 
“* Vid. Marmol, tom. I p. 274. 
