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Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia During the Years 1520-1527 (Paperback)
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Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia During the Years 1520-1527 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series
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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume contains an
English translation of a description of Ethiopia written by
Francisco Alvarez (c.1465 c.1540) during the six years he spent as
a missionary with the Portuguese embassy to the Emperor of
Ethiopia. Alverez describes Orthodox Christian monasteries and
churches, compares the Orthodox and Catholic rites, and provides
the first known descriptions of the ancient city of Axum in this,
the earliest surviving Western description of Ethiopia, first
published in English in 1881.
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