MOCHA. 
473 
During this period, and indeed up to the year 1255, very little 
is known respecting the atFairs of the country, the only mention of 
them in the Arabian authors consisting of an occasional notice of 
their sending for an Abuna from Egypt,* and the chronicles them- 
selves containing the names of a few only of the latter emperors. f 
In about 1255, or thereabouts, Icon-Amlac recovered the whole 
kingdom through the abilities of an ecclesiastic named Tecla 
Haimanot; but still, owing to the necessity of keeping up a con- 
stant opposition to the Mahomedans, who had become very 
powerful on the eastern frontiers, he was obliged to continue his 
residence in Shoa. 
The sovereigns who succeeded Icon Amlac have the following 
periods assigned to them in the Chronicles. 
Icon Amlac 
Woodem Arad 
Kudraa Asgiid 
Asfa-Asgud 
Sinfa Aso ud 
from 1255 to 1269 
1269 1284 
1284 1287. 
Bar Asgiid 
Egba Sion 
Amda Sion 
Sef Arad 
Grim'asfare 
from 1287 to 1292 
1292 1301 
1301 1331 
1331 1359 
1359 1369 
* Vide Elmacini Saraceni Hist, in Parchas, 1032, Vol. V. and Abdullatif. Paris, 
p. 334, 1810. 
f One of these, however, (named Lalibala) was very distinguished on account of the 
churches which he built in Lasta, (before described) and from a successful attempt which 
he is said to have made to turn the course of the Nile This story is also recorded in the 
Arabian historie s of Egvpt, and is attributed to the years 831 of the Diaclesian sera, or 
A. D 1095. The ignorance of the times may have favoured the opinion of the possibility 
of such an undertaking, but in all probability the only source of a river over which 
Lalibala had a command was that of the Tacazze, which takes its origin in Lasta. The 
names of the monarchs sprung from the legitimate branch which fled to Sboa are given in 
theCbroniclesasfollow: after I>i'n ad came Maimersa Woodim, then Agva Sion^ Sin Farat, 
Negush Zarte, Atzf^, Yakoob, Birasgud, Asgud, Wt)odem Asgiid, and their reigns are 
said to have occupied 330 years, which brings the history down to the period of 1255. 
