[45] Morié, vol. i. pp. 417–18. [↑]

[46] Lord Stanley of Alderley in his translation of Alvarez’ Narrative from the original Portuguese, gives the answer of the king as follows: “He said to them that he had his Abima from the country of the Moors, that is to say from the Patriarch of Alexandria; … how then could he give priests and friars since another gave them” (p. 352). (London, 1881.) [↑]

[47] Viaggio nella Ethiopia al Prete Ianni fatto par Don Francesco Alvarez Portughese (1520–1527). (Ramusio, tom. i. pp. 200, 250.) [↑]

[48] Wansleben, p. 30. For descriptions of the ruins that still remain, see Budge, vol. ii. p. 299 sqq., and G. S. Nileham, Churches in Lower Nubia. (Philadelphia, 1910.) [↑]

[49] Burckhardt (1), p. 133. [↑]

[50] Alvarez, p. 250. [↑]

[51] Idrīsī, p. 32. [↑]

[52] ʻArabfaqīh, p. 323. [↑]

[53] Maqrīzī (2), tome ii. 2me partie, p. 183. [↑]

[54] Basset, p. 240. [↑]