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ded with one or more villages to furnifh him with what 
articles he may need, without being obliged to have recourfe 
to the king or his minifters for every neceflary. Amha 
Yafous, prince of Shoa, had a large and a royal village, Em- 
fras, given him to fupply him with food for his table; he 
had another village in Karoota for wine; a village in Dem- 
bea, the king’s own province, for his wheat ; and another im 
Begemder for cotton cloths for his fervants ; and fo of the 
reft. After 1 was in the king’s fervice I had the villages 
that belonged to.the pofts I occupied; and one called Geefh; 
in which arifes the fources of the Nile, a village of about 
18 houfes, given me by the king at my own requeft; for I 
might have had a better to furnifh me with honey, and cons 
firmed to me by the rebel Waragna Fafil, who never fuffer- 
ed me to grow rich by my rents, having never allowed me 
to receive but two large jars, fo. bitter with lupines that 
they were of no fort of ufe to me. I was a gentle mafter, nor 
ever likely to be opulent from the revenues of that coun- 
try; and more efpecially fo, as. I had under me, as my lieu 
tenant*, an officer commanding the horfe, whofe thoughts 
were much more upon Jerufalem and the holy fepulchre 
than any gains he could get in Abyflinia by his employ= 
meits.. | 
TuucypipEs } informs. us, that Themiftocles had received 
great g@ tts trom Artaxerxes king of Perfia, when fettled at 
Magnetia; the king had given him that eity for bread, Lamp- 
facus 
* Ammonios, Billetana Gueta to Ayto Confu. 
t Thucyd, lib. i, Strabo, lib..xiv.. Theod..Sic,.lib,. xi. 
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