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0495 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 / Page 495 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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Makrizi that *about* A.H. 700, the reigning governor of Aufat under the Hati was *Sabreddin* Mahomed Valahui ; and that it was 'Ali, the son of this Sabreddin, who first threw off allegiance to the Abyssinian King, then Saif Arad (son of Amda Zion). The latter displaces 'Ali and gives the government to his son Ahmed. After various vicissitudes Hakeddin, the son of Ahmed, obtains the mastery in Aufat, defeats Saif Arad completely, and founds a city in Shoa called Vahal, which superseded Aufat or Ifat. Here the *Sabreddin* of Makrizi appears to be identical with Amda Zion's governor in Bruce's story, whilst the *Hakeddins* belong to two different generations of the same family. But Makrizi does not notice the wars of Amda Zion any more than the Abyssinian Chronicles notice the campaign recorded by Marco Polo.
(*Bruce*, vol. III. and vol. IV., pp. 23-90, and *Salt's Second Journey to Abyssinia*, II. 270, etc. ; both these are quoted from French versions which are alone available to me, the former by *Castera*, Londres, 1790, the latter by *P. Henry*, Paris, 1816 ; *Fr. Th. Rink, Al Macrisi, Hist. Rerum Islamilicarum in Abyssinia*, etc., Lugd. Bat. 1798 ; *Rüppell*, Dissert. on Abyss. Hist. and Chronology in his work on that country ; *Quat. Makr.* II. 122-123 ; *Quat. Mém. sur l'Égypte*, II. 268, 276.)