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importance of this inscription must be considered as relating to 
the history of the country, upon which I shall hereafter introduce 
a few cursory observations. With respect to the tribe of the 
BOTrAEITXlN, the conquest of which constitutes the main subject 
of this inscription, it appears that it is still found under the name 
of the Boja, inhabiting a district two days journey northward of 
Hamazen, and is partially under the influence of the Na jib of 
Massowaand of a Christian chief; the natives themselves being half 
Musselmauns, and half Christians. Still farther to the north, re- 
sides a people called Taguie, which in all probability answers the 
TOKAEOT/' mentioned in the inscription. The numerals which 
occur in the inscription were supposed, in my former account, to 
be inexplicable,"' but I canaiot help feeling assured, that they 
also are Greek, as indeed the r in the last line before translated 
"three," seemed to prove. I should therefore explain the figures in 
line 13 to consist of an unknown letter, expressing thousands, rho, 
iota and beta, or 112 ; those in 14, to be zeta, upsilon, kappa, 
and delta, or 7424 ; but the rest I must still leave to the ingenuity 
of some person more skilled than myself in the art of deciphering 
numbers. 
During the time that I had been engaged in revising the Greek 
characters, Mr. Stuart, at my request, had been endeavouring 
to make out some of the smaller letters on the opposite side 
of the stone, and on examining what he had done, I felt imme- 
diately assured that they were Ethiopic. In consequence I passed 
carefully over every character I could trace, a fac-simile of which 
is here given. 
