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Soldan of Egypt, with which country the Abyffinians at that 
time were in conftant correfpondence, though I never 
‘heard they were with Sennaar, which indeed did not exift 
at that time, nor was there either city or kingdom till the 
reign of Naod; fo it was a correfpondence with the fove- 
reigns of Cairo, Tecla Haimanout miftook for that with Sen- 
naar, which monarchy was not then founded.—The third 
obfervation is, that this Baady el Achmer, being the very 
king who murdered, M. du Roule in 1704, did, neverthelefs, 
live till the year 1726, having reigned 25 years; whereas 
M, de Maillet* writes to his court, that this prince had 
been defeated and flain in a battle he had with the Arabs, 
under their Shekh at Herbagi in 1705... 
Upon the death of a king of Sennaar, his eldeft fon fuc- 
ceeds by right; and immediately afterwards as many of 
the brothers of the reigning prince as can be apprehended 
are put to death by the Sid el Coom, in the manner already 
defcribed. Achmet, one of the fons of Baady, brother of 
Naffer, and If{main now onthe throne, fled, upon his brother’s 
acceflion, to the frontiers of Kuara, and gathering to- 
gether about a hundred of the Ganjar horfe, he came to 
Gondar, and was kindly received by the Iteghé, who perfua- 
ded him to be baptifed. Some time after he returned 
to Kuara, and joined the king’s army a little before the bat- 
tle of Serbraxos, with about the fame number of horfe, 
and there he mifbehaved, taking flight upon the firft ap- 
pearance 
* Vid. Conful Maillet’s letter to the French ambaflador publithed by Le Grande in his 
- Hiftory of Abyflinia.. 
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