188 AXUM. 
in Arabia felice (published 1186 at Harderwick) of which the foh 
lowing Latin translation is there given. 
Et Hainaha cujus opes occiderunt , 
In Raidana, quum advenisset Occasus 
Is potentem reddidit incolam, et viam emunivit 
Ad Raidanam praecelsus gloria in accessus. 
The Arabic word used is {^^c^j 
And of the Ethiopians, and the Sabeans, and of Zeyla. 
Xu^asirm is a peculiar spelling, and is only to be found in the 
Periplus, where ZaJ^aeiTis occurs, which had been considered as a 
corrupt reading. S^Xea, I have no doubt, is Zeyla, which is an ancient 
(as well as modern) Arabic name of a port on the Abyssinian coast, 
as appears in the Historia Joctanidarum before quoted, page. 141, 
" Ad eum (" regnum Jemanse) transfretarunt Habassii e regionibus 
Natza et Zeilaa," ( jLj ) que litorales sunt Habassise." This was 
about the fifth century. The same Zeiia is in all modern charts. 
And of Tiamo ; this I conceive to be the Tehama of Arabia; or, 
it may be the same place as the one mentioned by Cosmas in 
Tigre. The Bougaeites, I consider to be the Bogenses of Edrisi ; 
I conceive the g, to have been pronounced soft like j ; hence to 
be the same as the modern Beja tribe near Suakin. ToKasis is the 
only name for which 1 have no conjecture to offer. The title of 
Qcx,(riX£vg Q>oc(rtXtcav which follows, is most exactly conformable to 
Negus Negashi, or King of Kings, which the Abyssinians assume 
to this day. 
The Diog aviKBTif A^eug, which winds up the title, in imitation of 
