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commonly return in companies, as they came. The King of Dangala pays 
his Tribute to the King of a^thiopia, in Cloath. The Provinces of iy£ihiopia, 
are Gonya», (where the King keeps a Vice-Roy.^ Beghandir^ Dambja^ Jmara, 
fwhich is a great Province full of Mountains and good Caftles) Damond Teare, 
and Barnegas. Befides, there are feveral Provinces Governed by Princes, who 
are Vaflals to the King of (Ethiopia. In fhort, the Kingdom of Rthiopa^ 
comprehends twenty four Tambours ov Vice Roys. The Capital City is called 
Gomhar, and is in the Province of Dambia. i^thiopla^ (as the Ambafladour 
told me ) is as cold as Aleppo or DamafcHs^only the Countries near the Red-Sea, 
and the Countrey of Senmr are hot. The King of ?y£thiopia has above an 
hundred Wives, and keeps no Eunuchs to look after them, becaufe they look 
upon it as a Sin to Geld a Man ; fo that the Women have the fame liberty 
there as in Chriftendom. He Is a King of very eafie accefs, and the pooreft 
have the freedom to come and fpeak to him when they pleafe. He keeps all 
his Children on a Mountain, called Onohhrn, in the Province of Oinadaga^ which 
is a Mountain two days Journey diftant from 6"o»tW ; there is a place like a 
Ciftern on the top of the Mountain, into which they are let down every night, 
and taken up again in the day-time, and fufîèred to play and walk about. 
When the King dies, they chufe out one of the wittieft of them, and make 
him King, without any regard to Birth-right : and when he comes to have 
Children, he fends his Brothers Prifoners to fome other place, and places his 
Children at Omhhni. The place where the Kings are Buried, is called -^^é'Tk/, 
and is a kind of Grott ; where the Aged are laid in one fide, and the young in 
the other. Heretofore there was a Church there of the fame name, in time 
of the Jefuits j and in the fame place, there is an excellent Library, where 
are all forts of Books in all kinds of Languages in great plenty, and may be 
feen by thofe who have the Curiofity. The Ambafladour alTured me, that he 
had been in that Library, and I fancy it is the old Library of the Ancient 
ty^thiopians. Ethiopia is a good and fertile Countrey, producing Wheat, 
Barley, &c. The greatefl Defarts of it, are not above three or four days 
Journey over; and nevertheleft, when the King makes any progrefs, he 
always lodges in Tents . The Houfes of the great Lords, are like thofe of 
Caire^ that is to fay, very meaiî'in refpedt of the Houfes of Europe, and the 
Teft are only of Mud. The Countrey affords men of all Trades, except 
Watch-makers. They have no Camels there, but Mules, Afles, Oxen and Hor- 
fcs. All the people of this Countrey eat raw Flefh, except the King, who has 
it drefs'd, and drinks Wine of Grapes j the reft drink only Wine made of 
Millet or Sarafin wheat, butasftrong as ours, and Brandy made of the fame 
Grain. They areCloathed after the fafhion of the Franks, and wear Cloath, 
Velvet and other Stuffs imported to them by the Red-Sea. They have Harque- 
buifes from the Turks, and of thofe People, there are not above three or four 
hundred, whoferve in the Wars with HarquebufTes. In Trading they make 
roufe of Coined Money, as the Europeans do, but their money are pieces of 
fifteen or twenty Pics of Cloath, Gold, which they give by weight, and a kind 
of Salt, which they reduce into little fquare pieces like pieces of Soap, and 
thefe pafs for Money. They cut out that Salt upon the fide of the Red-Sea, 
five or fix days Journey from Dangala, as you go from Caire, and the places 
where they make it, are called Arho. Among them is the Nation of the Gaules, 
whom in Àthiopick they call Chava, and are a Vagabond people in JEthiopia, 
as the Jrabs are in Moypt ; thefe Gaules are rich in Cattel, and are always at 
Wars with the Rthioptam , They have no HarquebufTes, nor other Fire-Arms, 
but make ufe of Lances and Targets. After all, they fpeak fo many different 
Languages in Rthiopa, that the AmbafTadour faid to me. If God hath made 
feve7Jty two Languages^ they are all fpohen in ^Ethiopia. I asked his Excellency 
if he knew any thing of the Source of the Nile, and this he told me concern- 
ing it. The head of Nile is a Well that fprings out of the Ground in a large 
Plain, where many Trees grow ; this Fountain is called, Ouembremma, and is 
in a Province called Ago. It makes that a very delightful place, calling up 
Water very High in feveral places : And this Ambafladour ofRthiopia afliired 
me, that he had been above twelve times with the King of JEthiopia to fpend 
feveral days about that Fountain, which is twelve days Journey from Qonthar, 
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