Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5): In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773Bruce, James
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Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5): In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773
Bruce, James
Egypt -- Description and travel; Ethiopia -- Description and travel; Ethiopia -- History; Natural history -- Ethiopia; Nile River
YEARS
REIGNED. _A. D._
Amru, son of Adelan, began his reign in the
year 1504, and reigned 30 | 1534
Neil, his son, 17 | 1551
Abdelcader, son of Amru, 8 | 1559
Amru, son of Neil, deposed, 11 | 1570
Dekin, son of Neil, 17 | 1587
Douro, his son, deposed, 3 | 1590
Tiby, son of Abdelcader, 3 | 1593
Ounsa, deposed, 13 | 1606
Abdelcader, son of Ounsa, deposed, 4 | 1610
Adelan, son of Ounsa, deposed, 5 | 1615
Baady, son of Abdelcader, 6 | 1621
Rebat, son of Baady, 30 | 1651
Baady, his son, 38 | 1689
Ounsa, son of Nasser son of Rebat, 12 | 1701
Baady el Achmer, his son, 25 | 1726
Ounsa, his son, deposed, 3 | 1729
L'Oul, son of Baady, 4 | 1733
Baady, his son, deposed, 33 | 1766
Nasser, his son, deposed, 3 | 1769
Ismain, 3 | 1772
Although these kings began with a very remarkable conquest, it does
not appear they added much to their kingdom afterwards. Ounsa, son
of Nasser, is said to have first subdued the province of Fazuclo. I
shall but make three observations upon this list, which is undoubtedly
authentic. The first is, that this monarchy having been established
in the 1504, it must answer to the 9th year of the reign of Naod in
the Abyssinian annals, as that prince began to reign in 1495.--The
second is, that Tecla Haimanout, the son of Yasous the Great, writing
to Baady el Achmer, or the White, who was the son of Ounsa, about the
murder of M. du Roule the French Ambassador, in the beginning of this
century, speaks of the ancient friendship that had subsisted between
the kings of Abyssinia and those of Sennaar, ever since the reign of
Kim, whom he mentions as one of Baady's remote predecessors on the
throne of Sennaar. Now, in the whole list of kings we have just given,
we do not find one of the name of Kim; nor is there one word mentioned
of a king of Sennaar, or a treaty with him, in the whole annals of
Abyssinia, till the beginning of Socinios's reign. I therefore imagine
that the Kim[37], which Tecla Haimanout informs us his predecessors
corresponded with in ancient times, was a prince, who, under the
command of the Caliph of Cairowan, in the kingdom of Tunis in Africa,
took Cairo and fortified it, by surrounding it with a strong wall, and
who reigned, by himself and successors, 100 years, from 998 to 1101,
when Hadec, the last prince of that race, was slain by Salidan, first
Soldan of Egypt, with which country the Abyssinians at that time
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