89,) Dunaan (Ds Nowas) massacred 20,000 Christians, and threw them into a pit, where they were burned.

They are called in the Koran the companions of the pit (socii foveae.)--M.] [Footnote 99: Alvarez (in Ramusio, tom.i.fol.219, vers.

221, vers.) saw the flourishing state of Axume in the year 1520--luogomolto buono e grande.

It was ruined in the same century by the Turkish invasion.
No more than 100 houses remain; but the memory of its past greatness is preserved by the regal coronation, (Ludolph.Hist.et Comment.l.ii.

c.
11.) * Note: Lord Valentia's and Mr.Salt's Travels give a high notion of the ruins of Axum .-- M.] [Footnote 9911: The Negus is differently called Elesbaan, Elesboas, Elisthaeus, probably the same name, or rather appellation.