MOCHA. 
461 
After Bazen the following kings reigned in succession. 
Y. 
M 
Y. 
M. 
Za-Senatu 
26 
0 
4 
0 
Za Les 
10 
0 
Za^ Elaso'iiao'a 
- 76 
0 
Za Masenh 
6 
0 
El Herka 
21 
0 
Za Sutuwa 
9 
0 
Za Baesi tsawesa 
- 1 
0 
2a-Adgaba 
10 
6 
Za Wakena 
Two days. 
Za Agba 
0 
6 
Za Hados 
0 
4 
Za-Malis 
6 
0 
El Segel 
2 
0 
Za-Hakale 
13 
0 
El Asfeh , - 
M 
0 
Za Demahe 
10 
0 
El Tsegaba 
23 
0 
Za Awtet 
2 
0 
El Semera 
- 3 
0 
Za Elawda 
30 
0 
El-A.hreha and 
Za Zigen and Rema 
40 
0 
Atzbeha or Aizana )>26 
6 
Za Gafale 
1 
0 
and Saizana-\ 
1 
J 
* Up to this reign we find the Za or Zo prefixed, which is the mark, as I conceive, of 
the shepherd kings or original Ethiopians ; but about this time the El" which succeeds 
seems to denote a change in the dynasty, a conjecture strongly confirmed by the very short 
reigns of the three sovereigns Za baesi tsawesa, Za wakend, and Za.hadus,wliich intervene, 
and with the hist 1 imagine that the first race of kings became extinct. It may admit of a 
query whether this revolution were not effected by a colony of Syrians, who are said to 
have been placed by Alexander to the south of the Axomites near the mouth of the Red 
Sea. Vide Philostorgius, p. 470. Up^lspoi h To6Tcovlm Au|«^,7c2v Itt) 8^«;r^^ra) Trfog dmloXo^s 
nul^xovTss c^7ieuvhy 7ru§oixo6<riu ci STPOl, ra^lrjv t^iv k\^<t^v xa\ -KOLqd hi; hKe:<re pqovrsr 
KKi^avlqoi ds Tragd rsroi; 6 Muxedc^v sx tij? %6gioi; uvctf^a-us bvIocvSoI xMxktsv, 6i da wv Iri rjj 
TTOcrgc^c^ <pco,yi xix§rivlui. MiXavsj oh s*^, ds^v^s ^yruvh,, o^eUs uvrh; r« uxlho; r« riXiov xa.^L 
ttV^vvj?, iva-qu xotirois t= l^JUxa^^^a ixuKisra y'mrai. x. r- A. Nicephorus Call. (Basil, 1559) 
Lib. IX. Ch. xviii. gives the same narration ; a circumstance which, if allowed, might in 
some degree account for the introduction of the Geez language into the country, without 
seeking for its origin in Arabia. 
t Tiie reader will observe here a striking coincidence, that by taking the eight years of 
Bazen, which happened subsequently to the birth of Christ, and adding the thirteen in 
Abreha's reign, at which period Christianity was introduced, it forms precisely three hun- 
dred and thirty years, the period which is stattd to have elapsed between thoJe two events 
in the Chronicles, 
