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Page 17
... leaving Brekka and another man to keep me company , as was said , but in fact , to keep guard over me . A disjointed con- versation with the former served to amuse me during the rest of the day . He gave me some in- formation respecting ...
... leaving Brekka and another man to keep me company , as was said , but in fact , to keep guard over me . A disjointed con- versation with the former served to amuse me during the rest of the day . He gave me some in- formation respecting ...
Page 41
... leaving Farree , as I conceived that it might be some expectation of the sort that was operating to cause our tiresome detention . was wrong in this , for it was not his pleasure , but the King's , his master , that we should be kept at ...
... leaving Farree , as I conceived that it might be some expectation of the sort that was operating to cause our tiresome detention . was wrong in this , for it was not his pleasure , but the King's , his master , that we should be kept at ...
Page 71
... leaving Angolahlah , I engaged a servant , named Walderheros , tall , athletic , but of most ill - favoured countenance , so much so , that " Gool , " to which eastern vampire he was compared by the members of the Mission , became his ...
... leaving Angolahlah , I engaged a servant , named Walderheros , tall , athletic , but of most ill - favoured countenance , so much so , that " Gool , " to which eastern vampire he was compared by the members of the Mission , became his ...
Page 75
... leaving Ankobar immediately , and exchange its damp cold atmosphere for the more genial climate of Aliu Amba . In Ankobar my time was principally occupied in receiving information respecting the character and customs of the inhabitants ...
... leaving Ankobar immediately , and exchange its damp cold atmosphere for the more genial climate of Aliu Amba . In Ankobar my time was principally occupied in receiving information respecting the character and customs of the inhabitants ...
Page 97
... leaving on the right hand the town and hill of Aliu Amba . To the left of my position , the peak of the state- prison hill of Gauncho , and the seat of the Wallas- mah Mahomed , was just visible over a continuous range of hills , that ...
... leaving on the right hand the town and hill of Aliu Amba . To the left of my position , the peak of the state- prison hill of Gauncho , and the seat of the Wallas- mah Mahomed , was just visible over a continuous range of hills , that ...
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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.