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id: 1436
author: Lobo, Jerónimo
title: A Voyage to Abyssinia
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  The Nile runs here so near the shore that it might without much difficulty be turned through this opening of the mountains into the Red Sea, a design which many of the Emperors have thought of putting in execution, and thereby making a communication between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, but have been discouraged either by the greatness of the expense or the fear of laying great part of Egypt under water, for some of that country lies lower than sea. Among great numbers whom we consulted on this occasion, we were informed by some that we might go through Melinda.


id: 8815
author: Blanc, Henry
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title:
  Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People

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  At first Theodore, gratified at receiving such beautiful gifts, treated the ambassador with all courtesy and distinction; but on account of the unsafe condition of the country at the time, he took his guest with him, and considering Magdala a proper and suitable place of residence, left him there. Little by little Theodore worked on the minds of his people, impressing them with the idea that, after all, the Bishop was only a man like themselves; and, at least in Theodore's camp, he had already lost much of his prestige when the Emperor spread the report that his honour had been assailed by the Bishop whom they all worshipped.


id: 39615
author: Head, Francis Bond, Sir
title: The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African Traveller
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  A dead silence followed this laconic remark: at last Bruce offered his presents, and then took his leave, little pleased with his reception, and heartily rejoicing that the despatches which had been sent to Janni were now far beyond the power of the naybe. Lord Valentia proceeds to say, I think it clear, from the above observations, that Mr. Bruce represented himself in the first place as visiting an island called Gibel Zumrud, in lat.


id: 35369
author: Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir
title: The Highlands of Ethiopia
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  On the other hand, _fas est et ab hoste doceri_. His only rule is that of _hysteron proteron_, or putting the cart before the horse.


