AXUM. 4il 
on a former occasion, were confirmed, particularly throughout 
the first line, so that I am now enabled to give a copy of the 
whole corrected finally on the spot, and to this I have been in- 
duced to add a translation, for the satisfaction of my readers, 
though it has before been given with a very slight variation in 
Lord Valentia's Travels. 
Translation of the Axum Inscription. 
(We) Aeizanas King of the Axomites and 
of the Homerites, and of Raeidan,* and of the iEthi- 
opians and of the Sabeans, and of Zeyla, 
and of Tiamo and the Boja, and of the Ta- 
guie,t king of kings, J son of God, 
the invincible Mars — having rebelled, 
on an occasion, the nation of the Boja, 
We sent our brothers, 
Saiazana and Adephas 
to make war upon them, and upon 
their surrender, (our brothers) after subduing them, 
brought them to us, with their families ; 
of their oxen, *112, and of their sheep 
* This place is mentioned by Louis Barthema, who calls it Rhada, and describes it to 
be three days jojirney from Sana. (Itinerarlo, p. 21.) 
t The Boja and the Taguie, ur6 tribes still found to the northward of Abyssinia; so 
that it appears to have been only a partial conquest. 
X This precisely answers to the Negush-Negashi which still continues to be the 
title of the Abyssinian Emperors. 
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