The Sacred City of the Ethiopians: Being a Record of Travel and Research in Abyssinia in 1893Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 309 pages |
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... Greek fluently . He told us that in Greece he had always been called Marko , and as Greek was to be the language of communication in our domestic department , we soon abandoned our efforts to call him by his more high - sounding name ...
... Greek fluently . He told us that in Greece he had always been called Marko , and as Greek was to be the language of communication in our domestic department , we soon abandoned our efforts to call him by his more high - sounding name ...
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... Greek influence was here paramount ; from the days of the Ptolemies to the days of the Alexandrian monks , who converted it to Christianity , Greek was the only influence from without ; then came the thousand years of which Gibbon ...
... Greek influence was here paramount ; from the days of the Ptolemies to the days of the Alexandrian monks , who converted it to Christianity , Greek was the only influence from without ; then came the thousand years of which Gibbon ...
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... Greek of Massowah has tried to utilise the quolquol gum for commercial purposes , but I hear with no great success ; it is too spongy . The natives use this tree universally for building huts and roofing their houses . When barked and ...
... Greek of Massowah has tried to utilise the quolquol gum for commercial purposes , but I hear with no great success ; it is too spongy . The natives use this tree universally for building huts and roofing their houses . When barked and ...
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... Greek silver- smiths were found at Adoua and Gondar . One Greek , Apostoli by name , is reputed to have. ANKLET , EAR - PICK , CHILD'S NECKLACE AND CROSS , WOMAN'S NECKLACE of wood ; it has the cornua , or horns. STAY AT ASMARA 21.
... Greek silver- smiths were found at Adoua and Gondar . One Greek , Apostoli by name , is reputed to have. ANKLET , EAR - PICK , CHILD'S NECKLACE AND CROSS , WOMAN'S NECKLACE of wood ; it has the cornua , or horns. STAY AT ASMARA 21.
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... Greek islands . Originally this filigree work would seem to have come from Italy to Greece in the middle ages . Greece has passed it on to Abyssinia , doubtless through the medium of Alexandria , where the Greek and Abyssinian elements ...
... Greek islands . Originally this filigree work would seem to have come from Italy to Greece in the middle ages . Greece has passed it on to Abyssinia , doubtless through the medium of Alexandria , where the Greek and Abyssinian elements ...
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