THE SOURCE OF THE NILE ; 
Hope, and the fettlements made by the Portuguefe on the 
continent of India. 
Tae firft government of Mafuah under the Turks was by 
a bafha fent from Conftantinople, and from thence, for a 
time, the conqueft of Abyflinia was attempted, always with 
great confidence, though never with any degree of fuccefs ; 
fo that, lofing its value as a garrifon, and, at the fame time, 
asa place of trade, it was thought no longer worth while 
to keep up fo expenfive an eftablifhment as that of a ba- 
fhalik. 
Tue principal auxiliary, when the Turks conquered the 
place, was a tribe of Mahometans called Belowee, fhepherds 
inhabiting the coaft of the Red Sea under the mountains 
ef the Habab, about lat..14°.. In reward for this afiiftance, 
the Turks gave their chief the civil government of . Ma~- 
fuah and its territory, under the title of Naybe of Mafuah ; 
and, upon the bafha’s being withdrawn, this officer 
remained in fact fovereign of the place, though, to fave 
appearances, he held it of the grand fignior for an an- 
nual tribute, upon receiving a firman from the Ottoman 
‘Porte. 
_ "Tur body of Janizaries, once eftablifhed there in garrifon, 
‘were left in the ifland, and their pay continued to them 
from Conftantinople.. Thefe marrying the women of the 
country, their'children fucceeded them in their place and 
pay as Janizaries ; but being now, by their intermarniages, 
Moors, and‘natives of Mafuah, they became of courfe rela- 
tions to each other, and always fubject.to the influence of 
the Naybe. : 
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