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... soon as they were seized , away my friends ran , one after another , in the direction of Dinnomalee . Ohmed Medina , who had suddenly sprung up from some- where , sat upon his mule in the market - place , and VOL . II . B 2 GALLA ATTACK ...
... soon as they were seized , away my friends ran , one after another , in the direction of Dinnomalee . Ohmed Medina , who had suddenly sprung up from some- where , sat upon his mule in the market - place , and VOL . II . B 2 GALLA ATTACK ...
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... soon galloping along the road , following Ohmed Me- dina . We stayed not a moment at Dinnomalee , but a look satisfied my greatest anxiety ; for the stores were all safe , and I cared for nothing else , so with a mind much easier , I ...
... soon galloping along the road , following Ohmed Me- dina . We stayed not a moment at Dinnomalee , but a look satisfied my greatest anxiety ; for the stores were all safe , and I cared for nothing else , so with a mind much easier , I ...
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... soon went a - head , and had it not been for repeated stoppages on the road to relate to those still coming , all we had learned of the deed of blood , we should have returned to Dinnomalee by ten o'clock ; as it was , the sun had ...
... soon went a - head , and had it not been for repeated stoppages on the road to relate to those still coming , all we had learned of the deed of blood , we should have returned to Dinnomalee by ten o'clock ; as it was , the sun had ...
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... two sentinels who lay wrapped up in their body cloths fast asleep , and was soon some distance on the wrong road ; that is to say , the most circuitous one to Ankobar . I thought LEAVE FARREE . 13 that I was not exactly right 12.
... two sentinels who lay wrapped up in their body cloths fast asleep , and was soon some distance on the wrong road ; that is to say , the most circuitous one to Ankobar . I thought LEAVE FARREE . 13 that I was not exactly right 12.
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... soon brought all the disposable people , men and women of all ages , who had not left the village for their labours in the fields , who soon recog- nised in their visitor a Gypt or Egyptian , as the Abys- sinians call all white men . I ...
... soon brought all the disposable people , men and women of all ages , who had not left the village for their labours in the fields , who soon recog- nised in their visitor a Gypt or Egyptian , as the Abys- sinians call all white men . I ...
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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.