sick and could come to the assembly". One of his letters survives, written 11 June 1869, in which he asks Napoleon III for financial relief. According to a letter written by his nephew, Tesemma Zerubabel, to Antoine d'Abbadie and dated 25 September 1875, Yohannes died "two years previously", which would be 1873. Notes 1797 births 1873 deaths 19th-century emperors of Ethiopia 19th-century monarchs in Africa Solomonic dynasty