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=== Bruce vol II. ===

M.t Lasta In Waaq is inacessible almost.

==== Agaw 660 ====

the Agow idol is a kind of Bamboo called
krihaha

==== narea 661 ====

the caravan from Narea crossed the Galla Gafats
& Gongas.

==== Lasta 662 ====

in march 1638 a great deal of facilidas's army
perished of cold in Lasta.

==== A. Mendez 663 ====

(419) B. says that A. Mendez's letter from masuah 
was written from Goa

==== 664 ====

Hannes I deposed Abuna christadados & put AB. 
Samuda in his place (424)

==== E*t*ege 665 ====

Yasous I deposed the Itchegué tzaga Christos 
in a council of the clergy & named lyriacus in his room. 
27th Sept.r 1680 (426)

==== Dek 666 ====

from Dek to Ibaba, two easy days.

==== Agaw 667 ====

the Agow country is open & full of rich plains

==== [arabe] 668 ====

670

the Zeegam are the most powerful rich & 
trading of the Shank'alla.

Damot, open level country

==== 670 ====

The zeegam are on the N.E. of Abyssinia

==== dobarwa ====

the mareb encircles Dobⱥrwa.

==== taka 671 ====

The taka near Amba Tchou are shepherds not
Arabs but formerly part of the bagla or habab; they 
speak the language of Tögray & are reputed
subjects of Sennār.

barabra means land of shepherds.

==== Jesuits 673 ====

the Jesuits were banished about the year 1632 & finally 
extirpated in 1666.

==== gondar 674 ====

Gondar was built at the close of the reign of Hannes
I in 1680.

==== 675 ====

no Arabic book ever gave a description of Abyssinia.

==== funge ====

641

sedgid & kins were the places where came those
blacks who conquered senār from the Arabs (520)

==== sennār 677 ====

sennār was not tributary to Abyssinia or that
stripe of land of the shangalla would have been conquered.

==== [arabe] ====

The greeks & Latins made Azⱥmia from Bar el ajam
(528)

==== 679 ====

The clans Elmana & Densa in Gojam (530) [idi?] neighbour.
country (531)

==== bracelets 680 ====

any man who receives from the king enough ivory
bracelets to cover his arm down to his wrist, appears before the 
12 judges on a certain day & the king's cook breaks the rings 
with a cleaver & the judges give him a certificate which 
entitles him to a territory producing at least 20 ounces of gold. 
1 galla or negroe [entitles?] to 2 rings, an elephant 2, rhinoceros 2
giraffe, 2; buffalo, 2; lion; 2; leopard, 1. two boars, 1; 4 deer, 1

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