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, as well as by his own countrymen; his death proving an irreparable loss to the cause which he had supported. In December, 1623, Father Emanuel D'Almeyda and some other priests reached Massowa, and travelled up by way of Adegada, where they were met by a company of six hundred armed men; and thence they proceeded across the plain of Serawé, and partly along the course of the Mareb, until they arrived at Fremona. A very interesting account of this journey is to be met with in a work subsequently compiled by Father Almeyda, of which there at present remains only an abridgment by Tellez. Father Almeyda continued ten years in the country, during which period he seems to have been employed chiefly in collecting materials for his history.

The next and last patriarch sent into Abyssinia was Don Alfonzo Mendez, who arrived in 1625; a man of