TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. IN FIVE VOLUMES. BY JAMES BRUCE OF KINNAIRD, ESQ. F.R.S. [Illustration] VOL. II. _Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona_ _Multi, sed omnes illachrymabiles_ _Urgentur ignotique longâ_ _Nocte, carent quia vate sacro._ HORAT. EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY J. RUTHVEN, FOR G. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON. M.DCC.XC. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. BOOK III. ANNALS OF ABYSSINIA. Translated from the Original. CONTAINING THE HISTORY OF THE ABYSSINIANS, FROM THE RESTORATION OF THE LINE OF SOLOMON TO THE DEATH OF SOCINIOS, AND THE DOWNFALL OF THE ROMISH RELIGION. ICON AMLAC. From 1268 to 1283. _Line of Solomon restored under this Prince--He continues the Royal Residence in Shoa--Tecla Haimanout dies--Reasons for the Fabrication of the supposed Nicene Canon_, P. 1. IGBA SION. From 1283 to 1312. _Quick Succession of Princes--Memoirs of these Reigns deficient_, 4 AMDA SION. From 1312 to 1342. _Licentious beginning of this King’s Reign--His rigorous Conduct with the Monks of Debra Libanos--His Mahometan Subjects Rebel--Mara and Adel declare War--Are defeated in several Battles, and submit_, 5 SAIF ARAAD. From 1342 to 1370. _This Prince enjoys a peaceable Reign--Protects the Patriarch of Cophts at Cairo from the Persecution of the Soldan_, 60 WEDEM ASFERI. From 1370 to 1380. _Memoirs of this and the following Reign defective._ 62 DAVID II. From 1380 to 1409. 63 THEODORUS. From 1409 to 1412. _Memoirs of this Reign, though held in great Esteem in Abyssinia, defective, probably mutilated by the Ecclesiastics_, 64 ISAAC. From 1412 to 1429. _No Annals of this, nor the four following Reigns._ 65 ANDREAS I. OR AMDA SION. 66 TECLA MARIAM, OR HASEB NANYA. From 1429 to 1433. 67 SARWE YASOUS. ib. AMDA YASOUS. ib. ZARA JACOB. From 1434 to 1468. _Sends Ambassadors from Jerusalem to the Council of Florence--First Entry of the Roman Catholics into Abyssinia, Religion--King persecutes the Remnants of Sabaism and Idolatry--Mahometan Provinces rebel, and are subdued--The King dies_, 68 BŒDA MARIAM. From 1468 to 1478.