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Trirez and le Grande, mentioning the two Spun of 
the father and the fon upon this fubjec, give great praife to- 
the fon at the expence of the father, but without pe aM 
In the firft bake we tae feen that the utmoft exertion 
Don Emanuel could make was to fend 40o men to. affift 
the king of Abyffinia, whofe country was then almoft con- 
quered by the Turks and Moors. It was not then from India 
we were to expect the execution of fo arduous an underta- 
king. And as tothe fecond, the younger Albuquerque is mif- 
taken egregioufly in point of fact, for there never was a canal 
‘between Coffeir and Kenna, the goods from the Red Sea were 
tranfported by a caravan, and are fo yet. We have feen, in 
the beginning of this work, the account of my travelling 
thither from Kenna; this intercourfe probably was often 
interrupted by the Arabs in the days he mentions, and fo it 
is ftill; but it is the caravan, not the canal, that is ‘ftopt by 
the Atets! for no canal ever exilted, 
Tue fum of all this ftory is, a long and violent perfecution: 
followed the conquett of Fgypt by the Saracens, who were ac- 
aS to live in tents, which, with their diflike to the 
hriflian churches, made them deftroy all the buildings of 
tone, as alfo perfecute the mafons, whom they confidered 
as being employed i in the advancement of idolatry : thefe un- 
happy workmen, therefore, fled in numbers to Lalibala, an 
Abyflinian prince of their own religion, who employed 
them in many ftupendous works for diverting the Nile 
mto the Red Sea, or the Indian Ocean, which I have already 
defcribed, and which exift entire to this day*. 
.. THIS. 
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* Vol. I..b. ii. chap. 8.. 
