[Footnote 93: The Portuguese missionaries, Alvarez,
(Ramusio, tom. i. fol. 204, rect. 274, vers.) Bermudez,
(Purchas's Pilgrims, vol. ii. l. v. c. 7, p. 1149 - 1188,)
Lobo, (Relation, &c., par M. le Grand, with xv.
Dissertations, Paris, 1728,) and Tellez (Relations de
Thevenot, part iv.) could only relate of modern Abyssinia
what they had seen or invented. The erudition of Ludolphus,
(Hist. Aethiopica, Francofurt, 1681. Commentarius, 1691.
Appendix, 1694,) in twenty-five languages, could add little
concerning its ancient history. Yet the fame of Caled, or
Ellisthaeus, the conqueror of Yemen, is celebrated in
national songs and legends.]