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Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during three years' residence and travels in that country (1853)

Parkyns, Mansfield, 1823-1894 · London, Murray · leaf 241

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Chap. XVII. CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLINGS. 211 grinding corn, another as kitchen and bakehouse, and the others for store-rooms. The residence of a rich man may generally be known by the number of jars for beer, mead, corn, &c, which these last contain. … The Section here given is supposed to pass through one of the "medebs," and give a view of the other one and the side door. Plan, Plan.

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