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... Aliu Amba . - Road to Ankobar . - Incidents of the journey.— Vale of the Dinkee river . - Valley of the Airahra.— Effect of denudation . - Ankobar . - British Residency.- Start for Angolahlah . - Ascent of the Tchakkah . - Road to ...
... Aliu Amba . - Road to Ankobar . - Incidents of the journey.— Vale of the Dinkee river . - Valley of the Airahra.— Effect of denudation . - Ankobar . - British Residency.- Start for Angolahlah . - Ascent of the Tchakkah . - Road to ...
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... Aliu Amba . - Musical party.- Durgo . - Arrangements with Tinta . - Remarks upon in- ternal Government of Shoa . - The authority of Sahale Se- lassee . His virtues . CHAPTER XII . • Study of Amharic . - Remarks upon wet season in ...
... Aliu Amba . - Musical party.- Durgo . - Arrangements with Tinta . - Remarks upon in- ternal Government of Shoa . - The authority of Sahale Se- lassee . His virtues . CHAPTER XII . • Study of Amharic . - Remarks upon wet season in ...
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Charles Johnston. vi CONTENTS . CHAPTER XV . - Market day in Aliu Amba . - Toll of wares . - Court of Pie- poudre . - Appearance of the market . The salt money.- Character of the different vendors . - The prices of several articles . No ...
Charles Johnston. vi CONTENTS . CHAPTER XV . - Market day in Aliu Amba . - Toll of wares . - Court of Pie- poudre . - Appearance of the market . The salt money.- Character of the different vendors . - The prices of several articles . No ...
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... Aliu Amba . A troublesome companion . - Pleasant beverage.- Market day . Numerous visitors . - Home manufacture of cloth . . 303 CHAPTER XXI . Spinning cotton . - Of police force of Shoa . - Mode of adminis- tering justice . - Priest ...
... Aliu Amba . A troublesome companion . - Pleasant beverage.- Market day . Numerous visitors . - Home manufacture of cloth . . 303 CHAPTER XXI . Spinning cotton . - Of police force of Shoa . - Mode of adminis- tering justice . - Priest ...
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... Aliu Amba , on the road to Angolahlah , from which town a relief party would then take the duty of carrying them the remaining distance . From the character of the road , badly con- structed and in wretched condition , all the packages ...
... Aliu Amba , on the road to Angolahlah , from which town a relief party would then take the duty of carrying them the remaining distance . From the character of the road , badly con- structed and in wretched condition , all the packages ...
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Abyssinian Adal Africa ahmulahs Aliu Amba Amharic Amharic language ancient Angolahlah Ankobar appears Arabic arrival balderabah bread brought called cayenne character Christian colour considered cotton court custom Dankalli Dinnomalee dollars durgo earthenware Efat Embassy Enarea endeavour Ethiopia Farree favour feet formed friends Galla Geez language Gibbee Gongas Goodaloo Governor grain Gurague Hawash hill honey horn Hy Soumaulee inhabitants Islam jars Kafilah Karissa kind King Mahomed Mahomedan Mahriam manner memolagee monarch morning mule Myolones nearly Negoos Nile observed occasion occupied Ohmed Ohmed Medina palace palace hill party placed portion possession present received religion residence river road roof Sahale Selassee salt saltpetre sent servants Sheik Tigh Shoa Shoans side situation skin slaves soon stone straw supposed table land tedge teff thatched Tinta tion town traveller tree Walderheros Wallasmah whilst whole women Zingero
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Page 186 - This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.
Page 161 - Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land ? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
Page 187 - He will take the tenth of your sheep : and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.
Page 158 - Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan ; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.
Page 187 - And he will take your fields, and your vineyards and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
Page 435 - Then come the inhabitants, and place one or more parcels of gold upon the wares, and wait outside the enclosure. The owners of the flesh and other goods then examine whether this be equal to the price or not. If so, they take the gold, and the others take the wares ; if not, the latter still add more gold, or take back what they had already put down. The trade is carried on in this manner because the languages are different, and they have no interpreter : it takes about five days to dispose of the...
Page 434 - In the meantime having slain and cut up their oxen, they lay the pieces of flesh, as well as the iron, and salt, upon the thorns. Then come the inhabitants, and place one or more parcels of gold upon the wares, and wait outside the enclosure. The owners of the flesh, and other goods, then examine whether this be equal to the price or not.
Page 157 - And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Page 272 - ... be dreadfully severe. I can answer for this, that it occasions frequent miscarriages, often fatal to the mother, and even men have been known, after a large dose, to have died the same day from its consequences.