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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... King Menelek ; and then , if matters in Tigrè took a more favourable turn , we could proceed to cross the fron- tier to Adoua and Aksum , the goal of our desires . This struggle between Ras Alula and Ras Manga- shah for the lordship of ...
... King Menelek ; and then , if matters in Tigrè took a more favourable turn , we could proceed to cross the fron- tier to Adoua and Aksum , the goal of our desires . This struggle between Ras Alula and Ras Manga- shah for the lordship of ...
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... king . The Emperor Menelek II . , however , when he succeeded ABYSSINIAN GIRL to the empire , was jealous of the almost independent power possessed by this Ras ; he summoned him to resign , and appointed Ras Mangashah , a son of the ...
... king . The Emperor Menelek II . , however , when he succeeded ABYSSINIAN GIRL to the empire , was jealous of the almost independent power possessed by this Ras ; he summoned him to resign , and appointed Ras Mangashah , a son of the ...
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... King David , and in the sacred pictures in their church that monarch is always depicted as playing a fac- simile of this instrument , whereas his father Israel is 1 6 THE CHERA MASANKO ' said to have been the inventor of another ...
... King David , and in the sacred pictures in their church that monarch is always depicted as playing a fac- simile of this instrument , whereas his father Israel is 1 6 THE CHERA MASANKO ' said to have been the inventor of another ...
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... King of kings , and the transfixing of the saint's toe by the monarch's spear , without his finding it out , so engrossed was he by the beautiful noise he had invented . Such trivialities as these are to be found in those sacred books ...
... King of kings , and the transfixing of the saint's toe by the monarch's spear , without his finding it out , so engrossed was he by the beautiful noise he had invented . Such trivialities as these are to be found in those sacred books ...
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... king and nobles , and con- ducted to his quarters under an umbrella of cloth of gold . The magnificence of umbrellas used in reli- gious processions is even in these degenerate days marvellous . A beautifully wrought silver cross is ...
... king and nobles , and con- ducted to his quarters under an umbrella of cloth of gold . The magnificence of umbrellas used in reli- gious processions is even in these degenerate days marvellous . A beautifully wrought silver cross is ...
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