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46 of whose vast riches had excited his cupidity; later authors have praised their beauties and their virtues. During the reign of the Ptolemies, when the trade of the Red Sea was carried on partly through the Egyptian ports, and Ethiopia was made by their fleets a place of less difficult access, the language and some of the refinements of Greece were introduced; and it was a favourite resort of the later king's of this family, for the purpose of hunting the elephant. Like Arabia, this country afforded a refuge to multitudes of Jews, of whom many are to be found there at the present day. Christianity is supposed to have reached Ethiopia as early as the days of the apostles; but it can be ascertained with more