MOCHA. 
4m 
mentioned in the Chronicle as having reigned between Abreha and 
Ameda, whereas by the order I have ventured to adopt it affords a 
very fair proportion, and from the singular coincidence that, 
taking the 8th year of Bazen for the birth of Christ, and adding 
the thirteen years of Abreha, which is the period assigned for the 
introduction of Christianity, it precisely/ makes up the number 
three hundred and thirty, which is the exact interval between 
those two events assigned to have taken place in the Chronicle. 
Supposing then Asfah, Arfad, Amosi, and Seladoba to have 
reigned altogether about seventy years, and adding them to the 
list after El Ahiawya, and it gives a probable consistency to the 
Chronicle, bringing it regularly down as far as Ameda, whom we 
know to have been contemporary with Justin. 
The classical reader will find a pleasure in recognising in the 
above list the name of the sovereign w ho reigned in A byssinia at 
the period when the Periplus of the Erythrean sea was written, as 
it can scarcely, I think, admit of a doubt that Zoskales (Swo-^i^XTj^*) 
there mentioned answers to the Zahakale here named, who is 
said to have reigned between the years seventy-six and ninety- 
nine ; and it is an extraordinary circumstance how^ nearly this 
agrees with the period to which Dr. Vincent had attributed the 
writing of the Periplus, namely, to the 10th year of Nero, or 
A. D. 64, making a difference of about twelve years only, a 
* The alteration of a single letter a' for cr, would give precisely the same name, md 
it IS a mistake tliat is very likely to have occurred. Vide Periplus of the Erythrean Sea 
edited by Dr. Vincent. — " The king of this country is Zoskales, whose dominions extend 
from the Mosc6phagi to Barbaria, a prince superior to most, and educated with a know- 
ledge of Greek." 
