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have often before fpoken, and {hall have further occafion in: 
the fequel, 
Tue Arabs of Sennaar that are.on bad terms with the: 
governor of Atbara, fly hither acrofs the defert to avoid the: 
rapine and violence of that cruel tyrant. The arrival of 
thefe produces in an inftant the greateft plenty at Ras el: 
Feel; markets are held everywhere ; cattle of all kinds, milk, . 
butter; elephants.teeth, hides, and.feveral other commedi-- 
ties, are fold to a great.amount.. 
Tuer Arabs are of many different tribes ; the chief are the 
Daveina, then the Nile. Thefe, befides getting a good mar- 
Ket, and food for their cattle and protection for themfelves, 
have this great additional advantage, they efcape the Fly, 
and confequently are-not pillaged, as the reft' of the Arabs 
in Atbara are, when changing abodes to avoid the havock 
made by that infect. In return for this, they conftantly 
bring horfes from Atbara, below Sennaar, for the king’s 
own ufe, and for. fuch of his cavalry who are armed with; 
coats of mail, no Abyflinian horfe, or very few at leaft, be~- 
ing capable of.that burden. . 
AytTo Conru had many diftricts of land from his father: 
Kafmati Netcho, as well:as fome belonging to his mother- 
Ozoro Efther, which lay upon that frontier; it was called: 
Kas el Feel, and had a fendick and nagareet, but, as it was 
governed always by a deputy who was a Mahometan, it 
had no rank among the great governments of the ftate. 
Befides thefe lands, the patrimony of Confu, Ras Michael: 
had given him more, and with them this government, 
young as he was, from favour to his‘mother Ozoro Efther. | 
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