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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... village in a sea of sand , a collection of round huts inhabited by a tribe of Shohos , made of every imaginable scrap of rubbish , old oil tins , mats , and rags ; past Moncullo with the Swedish mission - house standing out con ...
... village in a sea of sand , a collection of round huts inhabited by a tribe of Shohos , made of every imaginable scrap of rubbish , old oil tins , mats , and rags ; past Moncullo with the Swedish mission - house standing out con ...
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... village of Abyssinians who have fled from the high plateau to escape from the famine and misery which has ruined the ... villages are abandoned , the land is going out of cultivation , and the wretched survivors betake themselves to the ...
... village of Abyssinians who have fled from the high plateau to escape from the famine and misery which has ruined the ... villages are abandoned , the land is going out of cultivation , and the wretched survivors betake themselves to the ...
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... village and church called Betmariam , they have estab- lished a strong fortress ; they have also erected nume- rous ... villages , where dwell the families of their native troops , large detachments of whom , both Abyssinians and ...
... village and church called Betmariam , they have estab- lished a strong fortress ; they have also erected nume- rous ... villages , where dwell the families of their native troops , large detachments of whom , both Abyssinians and ...
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... village is also very old , quite the oldest church we saw in this part of the country . You go down steps into it ... villages . We soon amassed a good col- lection of silver filigree ornaments , hair - pins snatched from the heads of ...
... village is also very old , quite the oldest church we saw in this part of the country . You go down steps into it ... villages . We soon amassed a good col- lection of silver filigree ornaments , hair - pins snatched from the heads of ...
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... villages , dressed in their long white robes and with turbaned heads - com- menced a series of religious dances , to the tune of a drum and the sistra . Each priest had a sistrum in one hand and a long crutch in the other , and their ...
... villages , dressed in their long white robes and with turbaned heads - com- menced a series of religious dances , to the tune of a drum and the sistra . Each priest had a sistrum in one hand and a long crutch in the other , and their ...
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