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They maintained them with oxen 
they supplied them with bread, they furnished 
with beer and wine and water in abundance 
The number of prisoners was six of royal rank 
with the multitude that followed them to the amount of ... . 
the whole had prepared for them every day of wheaten bread 
and wine for a very month* 
until the time that they brought the whole body to me 
whom after supplying with all necessaries 
and clothing, we compelled to 
change their abode, and established them in my 
own kingdom at a place called Mataia 
here we ordered them to be again supplied 
with bread, and furnished their six chiefs with .... oxen 
In gratitude to him who begat me 
I erected to him one statue of gold 
and one of silver and three of brass, for good luck. 
The commencement of the inscription completely baffled the 
researches of the Archbishop of Mount Sinai, and several other 
learned persons to whom it was shewn, till at length 1 was fortu- 
nate enough to meet in Ludolf (vide his Commentaries, pages 59 
and ^35) with the Greek names of an Abyssinian king, and his 
brother " Aizana et Sazanus" which at once cleared away the dif- 
ficulty, and led me to the true reading, which undoubtedly ought 
to run thus: Aei^o^m Qua-iXBug A^wprwi/, kc. Aeizanas King of the 
* Or they brought them to me in the month Achreisus ; but such a month is not 
known. Vincent. 
