Life In Abyssinia: Being Notes Collected During 3 Years Residence And Travels In That Country - Hardcover

Life in Abyssinia : Being notes collected during three years' residence and travels in that country

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. xxviii, 446 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plate (folding map) : 23 cm. Contents: Leave Suez; Jedda; the Naib's guide-tax; appearance of the country; inhabitants of Ailat; a summons to Kiaquor; Ailat to Kiaquor; start for Adoua; Adoua; Howzayn; visit to Oubi; start for Addy Abo; departure from Azum; botany and ornithology; a rough road; Aito Merratch, chief of Addy Abo; nine months' stay at Rohabaita; course of the Mareb; belief in omens; Abouna Tederos; motives for visiting Addy Abo; manners and customs; personal appearance, dress etc.; births and marriages; deaths and funerals; religion etc.; superstitions relating to persons possessed of the devil; anecdotes illustrative of character etc.; government, laws etc.; climate -physical constitution - diseases, modes of cure etc.; natural history; journey to the Taccazy; journey to Cafta. (Part contents). Artikel-Nr. rxb231

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