Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, Volume 4James Ballantyne, 1804 - 436 pages |
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... palace , HANNES II . 1769 . Hannes , brother to Bacuffa , chosen king - Is brought from Wechne - Crowned at Gondar - Refuses to march against Fasil - Is poisoned by order of Ras Michael , 57 74 95 146 189 TECLA HAIMANOUT II . 1769 ...
... palace , HANNES II . 1769 . Hannes , brother to Bacuffa , chosen king - Is brought from Wechne - Crowned at Gondar - Refuses to march against Fasil - Is poisoned by order of Ras Michael , 57 74 95 146 189 TECLA HAIMANOUT II . 1769 ...
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... palace , and took a son of Tecla Haimanout , aged only four years , whom he proclaimed king , and the Iteghe , Malacotawit , re- gent of the kingdom . But Badjerund Oustas , and those who had not been concerned in the murder of either ...
... palace , and took a son of Tecla Haimanout , aged only four years , whom he proclaimed king , and the Iteghe , Malacotawit , re- gent of the kingdom . But Badjerund Oustas , and those who had not been concerned in the murder of either ...
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... palace gate ; the first of her rank , it is believed , that ever died so vile a death , either in Abyssinia or any other country , the history of which has come down to our hands . Der- min and Paulus were first carried to the tree to ...
... palace gate ; the first of her rank , it is believed , that ever died so vile a death , either in Abyssinia or any other country , the history of which has come down to our hands . Der- min and Paulus were first carried to the tree to ...
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... palace . The number of the men was 300 that had horses in my time . There was once 280 , and , before my time , less than 200. These are all cloathed in coats of mail , and mounted on VOL . IV . C black horses ; always commanded by ...
... palace . The number of the men was 300 that had horses in my time . There was once 280 , and , before my time , less than 200. These are all cloathed in coats of mail , and mounted on VOL . IV . C black horses ; always commanded by ...
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... palace , he or- dered his tent to be pitched without 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 ...
... palace , he or- dered his tent to be pitched without 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 ...
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Abuna Abyssinia Achmet Adowa Agows Amhara appeared Arabia Arabs Arkeeko army arrived Axum Ayto Azage Azazo Bacuffa Baharnagash beasts Begemder Betwudet brother called church command Damot death Dixan Djawi encamped Enderta enemy Eshte Fasil fire Galla Georgis Gibberti Gojam Gondar governor of Tigre Gusho hand head Hezekias horse hyæna Ibaba immediately inhabitants Iteghe Janni Jidda Kasmati king king's kingdom Koscam l'Oul Lasta 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 person plain priests prince province queen Ras Michael reason Red Sea reign returned river says seemed seen Sennaar sent servants Shangalla shewed side soldiers soon Suhul Tacazze Taranta Tecla Haimanout teff tent thing throne Tigre tion town trees troops village violent Waragna Wechne Welleta Yasine Yasous
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Page 462 - 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.
Page 391 - I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high : speak not with a stiff neck.
Page 313 - He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Page 462 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 434 - Sierra occupied by the 3d division of infantry. — One division of French infantry arrived at the top of the ridge...
Page 464 - Saul caused roll 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...
Page 467 - ... down his ribs, and so on to the buttock, ^cutting the skin wherever it hinders them commodiously to strip the poor animal bare. All the flesh on the buttocks is then cut off, and in solid square pieces, without bones, or much effusion of blood ; and the prodigious noise the animal makes is a signal for the company to sit down to table.
Page 391 - 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.
Page 361 - 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...
Page 228 - I lay down, then, as a positive rule of health, that the warmest dishes the natives delight in, are the most wholesome strangers can use in the putrid climates of the Lower Arabia, Abyssinia, Sennaar, and Egypt itself; and that spirits, and all fermented liquors, should be regarded as...