Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile,: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, Volumen4George Ramsay, 1813 |
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... town of Sennaar . We require of you , therefore , to set them immediately at liberty , and to suffer them to come to us with all the marks of ho- - * The seal given in i.e Grande's Book is not the king's ; it is the invention of some ...
... town of Sennaar . We require of you , therefore , to set them immediately at liberty , and to suffer them to come to us with all the marks of ho- - * The seal given in i.e Grande's Book is not the king's ; it is the invention of some ...
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... be delivered to M. du Roule , at the town of Sennaar . " * Vid . the letter as quoted above . the Mission established in Egypt . - E . · These were the Fathers of I shall only observe upon this letter , that all 6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER.
... be delivered to M. du Roule , at the town of Sennaar . " * Vid . the letter as quoted above . the Mission established in Egypt . - E . · These were the Fathers of I shall only observe upon this letter , that all 6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER.
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... town of great Cairo , may God favour them with his goodness . " There are several things very remarkable in this letter . The king of Abyssinia values himself , and his predecessors , upon never having molested , or troubled any of his ...
... town of great Cairo , may God favour them with his goodness . " There are several things very remarkable in this letter . The king of Abyssinia values himself , and his predecessors , upon never having molested , or troubled any of his ...
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... town , where there is a royal residence , below Maitsha , on the west , or Gojam side of the Nile , from which it is about three days dis- tance . From this he returned again , and went to Tcherkin , a small village in the Kolla ...
... town , where there is a royal residence , below Maitsha , on the west , or Gojam side of the Nile , from which it is about three days dis- tance . From this he returned again , and went to Tcherkin , a small village in the Kolla ...
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... town , till the apartments should be smoked with gunpowder . But this was done so carelessly by his servants , that his house was burnt to the ground ; which was looked upon as a very bad omen , and made a great impres sion upon the ...
... town , till the apartments should be smoked with gunpowder . But this was done so carelessly by his servants , that his house was burnt to the ground ; which was looked upon as a very bad omen , and made a great impres sion upon the ...
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Abba Abuna Abyssinia Achmet Adowa Agows Amhara Arabia Arabs Arkeeko army arrived Axum Ayto Aylo Azazo Bacuffa Baharnagash beasts Begemder Betwudet brother called church command crown Damot death Dixan Djawi encamped Enderta enemy Eshte Fasil favour Galla Georgis Gibberti Gojam Gondar governor Guebra Mascal Gusho hand head Hezekias horse hyæna immediately inhabitants Iteghe Jidda Kasmati king's kingdom Koscam l'Oul Lamalmon Lasta letters Mahomet Mahometans Mammo manner Mariam Barea Masuah Metical Metical Aga miles monks morning mountain murder Naybe never night Nile o'clock officers Oustas Ozoro Esther palace passed patakas Persia person plain priests prince province queen Ras Michael Red Sea reign returned river says seen Sennaar sent servant Shangalla shewed Shum side soldiers strangers Tacazze Taranta Tecla Haimanout teff tent thing throne Tigre tion told town trees troops village violent Waragna Wechne Welleta Yasine Yasous
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Página 482 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Página 484 - To prevent this, Saul caused to be rolled to him a great stone, and ordered those that killed their oxen, to cut their throats upon that stone. This was the only lawful way of killing animals for food ; the tying of the ox, and throwing it upon the ground, was not permitted as equivalent. The Israelites did probably in that case, as the...
Página 487 - I may so call them, about twice as big as a pan-cake, and something thicker and tougher. It is unleavened bread of a sourish taste, far from being disagreeable, and very easily digested, made of a grain called teff. It is of different colours, from black to the colour of the whitest wheat-bread.
Página 411 - Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
Página 312 - He conducted us through a court- yard planted with jasmine, to a very neat, and, at the same time, large room, furnished with a silk sofa : the floor was covered with Persian carpets and cushions. All round, flowers and green leaves were strewed upon the outer yard : and the windows and sides of the room stuck full of evergreens, in commemoration of the Christmas festival that was at hand. I...
Página 488 - Cayenne pepper, and fossile-salt ; they then wrap it up in the teff bread like a cartridge. In the mean time, the man having put up his knife, with each hand resting upon his neighbour's knee, his body stooping, his head low and forward, and mouth open, very like an...
Página 377 - to be the great reservoir from whence arise most of the rivers that water this part of Abyssinia. A multitude of streams issue from the very summit in all directions; the springs boil out from the earth in large quantities, capable of turning a mill. They plough, sow, and reap here at all seasons ; and the husbandman must blame his own indolence, and not the soil, if he has not three harvests. We saw in one place people busy cutting down wheat ; immediately next to it others at the plough, and the...
Página 489 - ... they can cut off the flesh from his bones, they do not meddle with the thighs, or the parts where the great arteries are. At last they fall upon the thighs likewise ; and soon after the animal, bleeding to death, becomes so tough that the cannibals, who have the rest of it to eat, find1 very hard work to separate the flesh from the bones with their teeth like dogs.
Página 482 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have 1 given you all things.
Página 323 - within the outer gate of the church, below the steps, are three small square enclosures all of granite, with small octagon pillars in the angles apparently Egyptian ; on the top of which formerly were small images of the dog-star, probably of metal. Upon a stone in the middle of one of these the king sits and is crowned, and always has been since the days of paganism ; and below it, where he naturally places his feet, is a large oblong slab like a hearth, which is not of granite but of freestone....