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... pieces of calico and a pound of gunpowder was made to the Wallasmah , who sent us back his compliments , and that he was highly delighted with the present , but would be obliged for a little more gunpowder . Mr. Scott and I were ...
... pieces of calico and a pound of gunpowder was made to the Wallasmah , who sent us back his compliments , and that he was highly delighted with the present , but would be obliged for a little more gunpowder . Mr. Scott and I were ...
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... pieces , accord- ing to their length of service . Besides the numerous gunmen who are generally slaves born in the service of the Negoos , there is an inferior class who have been purchased from dealers , or have come to the King as the ...
... pieces , accord- ing to their length of service . Besides the numerous gunmen who are generally slaves born in the service of the Negoos , there is an inferior class who have been purchased from dealers , or have come to the King as the ...
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... pieces , we proceeded to Aliu Amba . I was not sorry , on reaching the summit of the ridge in front of Ankobar , to see again the Dinkee vale , stretching away before me , studded with eminences and little hill villages . As nearly as ...
... pieces , we proceeded to Aliu Amba . I was not sorry , on reaching the summit of the ridge in front of Ankobar , to see again the Dinkee vale , stretching away before me , studded with eminences and little hill villages . As nearly as ...
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... piece of furniture , strictly speaking , in the house , except my bed , was a chair of the most primitive construction , its thong - woven bottom being scarcely six inches from the ground . It would have been altogether a good model for ...
... piece of furniture , strictly speaking , in the house , except my bed , was a chair of the most primitive construction , its thong - woven bottom being scarcely six inches from the ground . It would have been altogether a good model for ...
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... piece , the name of which had already become familiar to me . Walderheros soon came back from the errand I had sent him upon , to procure the bulky coin , which was , however , refused by the surly monks , with a look and grimace that ...
... piece , the name of which had already become familiar to me . Walderheros soon came back from the errand I had sent him upon , to procure the bulky coin , which was , however , refused by the surly monks , with a look and grimace 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.