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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Page vii
... writers speak of as proto - Arabian enterprise ; a history , which research is only just now beginning to unfold , and which will , I feel confident , as discovery follows discovery , place before our view a vast , powerful , and ...
... writers speak of as proto - Arabian enterprise ; a history , which research is only just now beginning to unfold , and which will , I feel confident , as discovery follows discovery , place before our view a vast , powerful , and ...
Page 81
... writing . This is supposed to be a representation of the tables of the law which Moses brought down from Sinai , the original one being in the church at Aksum , and the whatnot is supposed to represent the ark or tabout in which they ...
... writing . This is supposed to be a representation of the tables of the law which Moses brought down from Sinai , the original one being in the church at Aksum , and the whatnot is supposed to represent the ark or tabout in which they ...
Page 110
... Writing in 1621 to the general of the Jesuits at home , Father Almeyda says , " The fortress , which was begun last year , is at last finished ; they have also erected another tower , to which is also added battlements and watch towers ...
... Writing in 1621 to the general of the Jesuits at home , Father Almeyda says , " The fortress , which was begun last year , is at last finished ; they have also erected another tower , to which is also added battlements and watch towers ...
Page 161
... writing the long parchment charms with quaint pictures thereon , which are tightly bound up in stamped leather cases and tied round the neck to ward off diseases and the evil eye . From a nun at Aksum we bought a very handsome necklace ...
... writing the long parchment charms with quaint pictures thereon , which are tightly bound up in stamped leather cases and tied round the neck to ward off diseases and the evil eye . From a nun at Aksum we bought a very handsome necklace ...
Page 181
... writing the above the transla- tions of the early Ethiopian inscriptions by Prof. Müller ( vide p . 263 ) conclusively prove that these were the thrones set up in Sada ' by the Aksumite kings to commemorate victories ; there are between ...
... writing the above the transla- tions of the early Ethiopian inscriptions by Prof. Müller ( vide p . 263 ) conclusively prove that these were the thrones set up in Sada ' by the Aksumite kings to commemorate victories ; there are between ...
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