Sy TRAVELS: TO DISCOVER: 
’ Tur Naybe finding the great diftance he was/:front his. 
protectors, the Turks in Arabia,.on the-other fidéd of the Red 
Sea, whofe garrifons were every day decaying in ftrength; 
and for the moft part reduced; fenfible, too; how much he 
was in the power of the Abyflinians, his enemies andnearcft 
neighbours, began to think that it was better to fecure him-. 
felf at home, by making fome advances to thofe in whofe - 
power he was.. Accordingly it was agreed bétween them, . 
that one half of the. cuftoms fhould be paid by him to the 
king of Abyfiinia, who was to fuffer him to enjoy his po-. 
vernment unmolefted ; for Mafuah;.as. I have.before faid, 
is abfolutely deftitute of water; neither can it be fupplied-. 
with any fort of provifions but, from the mountainous coun-.- 
ery of Abyflinia. 
Tue.fame may. be faid of Arkeeko, a large town: on.the:- 
bottom of the bay of Mafuah,-which has indeed water, - 
butlabours under the fame f{carcity of provifions; for the tract ; 
of flat land behind both, called Samhar, is a perfect defert, 
and only inhabited '‘from:the month of November to April, ., 
by a variety of wandering tribes called Tora, Hazorta, Shiho, , 
and Doba, ,and thefe carry all.their cattle to the Abyffinian . 
fide of the mountains when the rains fall there, which is : 
the oppofite fix months. When the feafon is thus reverfed, 
they and.their cattle are no longer in Samhar, or the domi-_ 
- nion of the Naybe, but in the hands of the Abyflinians, efpe- -. 
cially the governor of Tigré and Baharnagafh, who: there-. - 
by, without being at the expence and trouble of marching - 
againit Mafuah with an army, can make a line round it,., 
and ftarve all at Arkeeko and Mafuah, by prohibiting any — 
fort of provifions to. be carried thither from their fide. In.. 
the courfe of this hiftory we have feen this practifed with » 
‘ great. 
