General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1868 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co. Subjects:
Ethiopia France Africa, Northeast Foreign Language Study / Spanish
History / Africa / General History / Africa / Central History /
Africa / East History / Europe / France Reference / Dictionaries
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million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. ABYSSINIA PROPER,
CHRISTIAN ABYSSINIA -- ORAL TRADITION -- THE KIBRA NEGUST MENELEK
-- MAHOMEDAN INVASION -- MAHOMED GRYNE -- DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE --
THE FITHA NEGUST -- THE RAS - DEJAJ OOBEAY DEJAJ BOURROO -- TEEGRAY
AND ITS SUBDIVISIONS -- SEMEN GONDAR. The noble portion of
territory still in the possession of the Christians of Eastern
Africa, is blessed with a climate that may, perhaps, challenge a
comparison with any in the world. Its ordinary temperature is from
50 to 80, but it contains, within its small extent of a few hundred
miles, the variations of heat and cold that are usually found only
in portions of the globe which are distant from each other. A few
hours' ride will take you from the burning valley of the Takazzee,
or the agreeable warmth of the country of Kwolaggeria, to the frost
and hail-covered peaks of Semen; again a short road, and the bleak
and wind-swept plains of Waggera will remind you of the Sussex
Downs in March: by the slightest change, in fact, you may obtain a
residence within a degree of the wished- for temperature, be it
that of Italy, England, or Bengal. The tropical rains, in most
provinces, continue for three months or thereabouts -- that is
July, August, and September -- but in some, particularly in Gojam,
for nearly a month more, before or after that period. They are not
of great violence, ...
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