"These Gallas lived in the country near Magadoxo ; they are a fierce and cruel people, who make war on their neighbours, and on all, only to destroy and depopulate their countries. In the places they conquer they slay all the men, cut off the privy parts of the boys, kill the old women, and keep the young for their own use and service.We also cleared the country of women, boys, and everyone who could not fight ; with these went nearly all the inhabitants, great and small, from fear of the cruelty of the Gallas. A country like that is quickly depopulated, for the inhabited places have no buildings that are defensible, nor which cost much to rebuild, as they are all of wattle and straw. Meanwhile the King came, and hearing that the Gallas were masters of the country he was amazed, and did not regain command of himself for a long time. Afterwards he wept like a child,(16th century) and said : " My sin is great that such evil has befallen me. It must astonish you that I do not lose my senses when I think of the loss I have suffered."- In fact, he had lost three large kingdoms, two of them, Bale and Doaio, as large as Castille and Portugal and Hadia alone as large as all France.p229 -231 The Portuguese expedition to Abyssinia in 1541-1543 as narrated by Castanhosobooks.google/books?id=1tw7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA124&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
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