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7424, and their beasts bearing burthens ; 
nourishing them with the flesh of oxen, and giving them a 
supply of bread, and affording them to drink 
beer (sowa*), and wine (maiz-f), and water in abundance. 
Who (the prisoners) were in number six chiefs, 
with their multitude in number * * * 
making them bread every day, of whea- 
ten cakes, * 2 *, and giving them wine for a month, 
until the time that they brought them to us ; 
whom, therefore, supplying with all things 
fit, and clothing, we compelled to change their 
abode, and sent them to a certain place of our 
country called M — a, and we ordered them 
again to be supplied with bread, furnishing 
to their six chiefs oxen 4*. 
In grateful acknowledgement to him who begat me, 
the invincible Mars, J 
I have dedicated to him a golden statue, and one 
of silver, and three of brass, for good. 
I have only a few remarks to make in addition to those which 
I before submitted to the public on this subject. The chief 
* The common drink of the lower classes in Abyssinia j it is made of the remains of 
bread which are preserved from their tables, and a portion of parched barley. 
t Maiz is prepared with honey, fermented with barley, and strengthened with a bitter 
root called Sadoo. 
% In the Greek it is " vTreg h svxocgio-Tias t8 ejae ysvvr^a-uvTo; ccviKrjTs Agscti; so in the 
Adulic inscription— At' rjv ex^o tqv [/.iyifov kov /x« Agyjv svxo^pis-luv [as koi) eysv^os, a con- 
formity that is very remarkable. 
