MOCHA. 465 
conntry might (even though they had ceased to reign), have been 
used on the second occasion, by the Emperor Constantios. 
At this period the power of the emperors of Abyssinia seems to 
have been very fully established, and their conquests to have 
extended over part of Arabia, and from Zeyla up to the junc- 
tion of the Tacazze with the Nile. Such, at least, is the extent 
of the jurisdiction assumed by one of the Adulitic inscriptions 
which, since I gave my suggestions to the public, has been al- 
lowed by several persons, eminently qualified to decide on the 
question, to commemorate the transactions of an Abyssinian 
sovereign, and in all probability of the same prince who erected 
the monument at Axum.* 
From the period of which I am speaking, a lapse of nearly 
two hundred years occurs before we again find the Axomites 
noticed, when, from the complete command they had gained in the 
Red Sea, they began to take a lead in the general scale of politics, 
which makes them the subject of repeated mention both in the 
Greek and Arabian authors, whose accounts in general are ex- 
tremely consistent, though, from the variation in the names and 
other obscure passages, much difficulty has hitherto been experi- 
enced in reconciling them to each other. At length, however, 
from a close comparison of the narratives in different authors, I 
have been enabled to establish two points, in which the Byzan- 
tine historians agree so precisely with the statements in the 
native chronicles, that it in a great measure removes the obscu- 
rity which has hitherto attended the subject; a circumstance 
* Tide Appendix to Bruce, Vol, VII. p. 438, by Mr. Murray, and page 119 of the 
Periplus by J)r. Vincent^ who both candidly admit my conjectures^ 
