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
TRAVELS
TO DISCOVER
THE SOURCE OF THE NILE.