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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... ROCK CHURCH , DEBRA SINA . BLACK AND WHITE TOMBS OF BOGOS 70 73 75 77 ABYSSINIANS WINNOWING GRAIN THE MOUNTAINS OF ADOUA , FROM GUNDET . 91 93 FITAURARI ( GENERAL ) MANGASHAH 96 . 100 THE TOWN OF ADOUA HORN FOR RED PEPPER ; WRIST BASKET ...
... ROCK CHURCH , DEBRA SINA . BLACK AND WHITE TOMBS OF BOGOS 70 73 75 77 ABYSSINIANS WINNOWING GRAIN THE MOUNTAINS OF ADOUA , FROM GUNDET . 91 93 FITAURARI ( GENERAL ) MANGASHAH 96 . 100 THE TOWN OF ADOUA HORN FOR RED PEPPER ; WRIST BASKET ...
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... ROCK . 191 192 . 193 · . 195 ABYSSINIAN CHAIR . PEASANT'S CAP . . . 208 . 216 THE DAM AT KOLOE . 219 COLUMN AT KOLOE · 221 CAPITAL OF COLUMN , ADULIS 228 1 THE SACRED SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS CHAPTER I ILLUSTRATIONS XV.
... ROCK . 191 192 . 193 · . 195 ABYSSINIAN CHAIR . PEASANT'S CAP . . . 208 . 216 THE DAM AT KOLOE . 219 COLUMN AT KOLOE · 221 CAPITAL OF COLUMN , ADULIS 228 1 THE SACRED SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS CHAPTER I ILLUSTRATIONS XV.
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... rocks ; past Dogali , celebrated in Italian annals as the scene of their hard - won victory over Ras Alula , who had de- scended from his mountain fastnesses to give them battle there and drive them into the sea . The Italians here lost ...
... rocks ; past Dogali , celebrated in Italian annals as the scene of their hard - won victory over Ras Alula , who had de- scended from his mountain fastnesses to give them battle there and drive them into the sea . The Italians here lost ...
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... rocks in the sun for nearly half a mile . Then , the place being a little flatter , I was left to walk alone , and espied a boulder with a hollow in it , so that I could just get in , into the shade . In spite of expostulations , I ...
... rocks in the sun for nearly half a mile . Then , the place being a little flatter , I was left to walk alone , and espied a boulder with a hollow in it , so that I could just get in , into the shade . In spite of expostulations , I ...
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... also a bell - tower and three bells of European manufacture , but for all ordinary purposes they still use the stone ones . The monks live in little stone cells clustered round a rock. 50 THE SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS.
... also a bell - tower and three bells of European manufacture , but for all ordinary purposes they still use the stone ones . The monks live in little stone cells clustered round a rock. 50 THE SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS.
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