I shall therefore now give a list of their kings of the race of Solomon, descended from the queen of Saba, whose device is a lion passant, proper upon a field gules, and their motto, “_Mo Anbasa am Nizilet Solomon am Negadè Jude_;” which signifies, ‘the lion of the race of Solomon and tribe of Judah hath overcome.’ The Portuguese missionaries, in place of a lion passant, which is really the king’s bearing, have given him, in some of their publications, a lion rampant, purposely, as is supposed, to put a cross into the paw of this Jewish lion; but he is now returned to the lion passant, that he was in the time of Solomon, without any symbol either of religion or peace in his paws. LIST OF THE KINGS OF ABYSSINIA, FROM MAQUEDA, QUEEN OF SABA, TO THE NATIVITY. Years. Menilek, or David I. reigned 4 Hendedya, or Zagdur, 1 Awida, 11 Ausyi, 3 Sawé, 31 Gesaya, 15 Katar, 15 Mouta, 20 Bahas, 9 Kawida, 2 Kanaza, 10 Katzina, 9 Wazeha, 1 Hazer, 2 Kalas, 6 Solaya, 16 Falaya, 26 Aglebu, 3 Asisena, 1 Brus, 29 Mohesa, 1 Bazen, 16 Menilek succeeded to the throne in the 986th year before Christ; and this number of years must be exhausted in the reign of these twenty-two kings, when each reign, in that case, will amount to more than forty-four years, which is impossible. The reign of the twenty-one kings of Israel, at a medium, is a little more than twenty-two years at an average, and that is thought abundantly high. And, even upon that footing of comparison, there will be wanting a great deal more than half the number of years between Menilek and Bazen, so that this account is apparently false. But I have another very material objection to it, as well as the preceding one, which is, that there is not one name in the whole list that has an Ethiopic root or derivation. The reader will give what credit he pleases to this very ancient list. For my part, I content myself with disproving nothing but what is impossible, or contrary to the authority of scripture, or my own private knowledge. There are other lists still, which I have seen, all of no better authority than this. I shall only observe, upon this last, that there is a king in it, about nine years before our Saviour’s nativity, that did me the honour of using my name two thousand years before it came into Britain, spelled in the same manner that name anciently was, before folly, and the love of novelty, wantonly corrupted it.