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 was gratified in finding that the greater part of the conjectures I had ventured to make on a former occasion, were confirmed, particularly throughout the first line, so that I am now enabled to give a copy of the whole corrected finally on the spot, and to this I have been induced to add a translation, for the satisfaction of my readers, though it has before been given with a very slight variations in Lord Valentia's Travels.

Translation of the Axum Inscription.

(We) Aeizanas King of the Axomites and of the Homerites, and of Raeidan, and of the Æthiopians and of the Sabeans, and of Zeyla, and of Tiamo and the Bója, and of the Taguie, king of kings, son of God, the invincible Mars—having rebelled, on an occasion, the nation of the Boja, We sent our brothers, Saiazana and Adephas to make war upon them, and upon their surrender, (our brothers) after subduing them, brought them to us, with their families; of their oxen, *112, and of their sheep 7424, and their beasts bearing burdens; nourishing them with the flesh of oxen, and giving them a supply of bread, and affording them to drink beer (sowa, ) and wine (maiz, ) and water in abundance. Who (the prisoners) were in number six chiefs, with their multitude in number * * * making them bread every day, of wheaten cakes, * 2 *, and giving them wine for a month, until the time that they brought them to us; whom, therefore, supplying with all things