_ 454 _ he loses a great deal on spices because he cannot reach the producing countries as he used to(A). 3. Thank God I did not ask the Viceroy to send those foists because of what happened. Three foists went to the port of Arkiko(B), which belongs to the Prester (although it is occupied by Mame luks), and sent an interpreter ashore, who learned that the Prester had died and his brother(C) of his had been made king; that one of his captains had been victorious against the King of Zeilas(D) (a Moor), and another had routed a captain of the Grand Turk, losing many of his men; that the Prester controlled certain mountain ranges where many people lived who rebelled against him(E). All this indicates that the kingdom is peaceful, which is what he feared. Three or four leagues from the port, there (A) Carneiro described the victory over the Turks in 1557 (v.DI 111 801). (B) A port south of Massawa. (C) Claudius was killed in battle 23 March 1559, and was succeeded by his brother Minas (adas Sagad) until February 1563, bringing a change of fortune to Ethiopia (et. BECCARIA X 151 184). (D) Zeila is a port in Somalia not far from Djibouti. (E) For the various wars waged by Minas in 1599-60 against rebel fallachas V.A. Kammerer, La mer rooge, l'Abyssinie et l'Arable (XVIe-XVIle ciécles) et les portulans orientaux, tere partie. Abyssine et Portugals devent I’Islam (Coiro 1947); Couto, Dee.VII, Iib .8, c.9: lib. 10, c. 6).
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