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James Bruce on Eskander
There appears to be a problem with the primary sources, if the account of James Bruce can be trusted:
 * A wonderful confusion seems to be introduced at this time into history by the Portuguese writers. Iscander is said to die in the year 1490. he began, as they say, to reign in 1475; and this is confirmed by Ludolf; and, on all hands, it is allwoed he reigned 17 years, which would have brought the last year of his reign to 1492. It seems also to be agreed by the generality of them, that Covillan saw and conversed with this prince, Iscander, some time before his death: this he very well might have done, if that prince lived to 1492, and Peter Covillan came into Abyssinia in 1490, as Galvan says in his father's memoirs. But then Tellez informs us expressly, that Iscander was dead six months before the arrival of Peter Covillan in that country. If Peter Covillan arrived six months after the death of Iscander, it must have been in the end of his son's reign, Amda Sion, who was an infant, and reigned only seven months. (Travels, vol. 3 p. 146)

Bruce concludes, "Alvarez omits this king, Amda Sion, altogether, and so does Tellez; and there is a heap of mistakes here, that shew these Portuguese hhistorians paid very little attention to the chronology of these reigns." However, in more recent histories of Ethiopia, there is no indication of a conflict in these sources. Have these contradictions been resolved? Or is this another example of Bruce's well-known attitude towards his Portuguese/Jesuit antecedents, in whom he found fault at every opportunity? -- llywrch (talk) 20:58, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

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