BOOK II.

ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST AGES OF THE INDIAN AND AFRICAN TRADE--THE FIRST PEOPLING OF ABYSSINIA AND ATBARA--SOME CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE THERE.

CHAP. I.

_Of the Indian Trade in its earliest Ages--Settlement of Ethiopia--Troglodytes--Building of the first Cities_, 365

CHAP. II.

_Saba and the South of Africa peopled--Shepherds, their particular Employment and Circumstances--Abyssinia occupied by seven Stranger Nations--Specimens of their several Languages--Conjectures concerning them_, 381

CHAP. III.

_Origin of Characters or Letters--Ethiopic the first Language--How and why the Hebrew Letter was formed_, 411

CHAP. IV.

_Some Account of the Trade-Winds and Monsoons--Application of this to the Voyage to Ophir and Tarshish_, 427

CHAP. V.

_Fluctuating State of the India Trade--Hurt by military Expeditions of the Persians--Revives under the Ptolemies--Falls to Decay under the Romans_, 447

CHAP. VI.

_Queen of Saba visits Jerusalem--Abyssinian Tradition concerning Her--Supposed Founder of that Monarchy--Abyssinia embraces the Jewish Religion--Jewish Hierarchy still retained by the Fatasha--Some Conjectures concerning their Copy of the Old Testament_, 471

CHAP. VII.

_Books in use in Abyssinia--Enoch--Abyssinia not converted by the Apostles--Conversion from Judaism to Christianity by Frumentius_, 493

CHAP. VIII.

_War of the Elephant--First Appearance of the Small-Pox--Jews persecute the Christians in Arabia--Defeated by the Abyssinians--Mahomet pretends a Divine Mission--Opinion concerning the Koran--Revolution under Judith--Restoration of the Line of Solomon from Shoa_, 510

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