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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 428

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de ; and im- mediately on their removal the "broundo" is brought in, each servant carrying a yet quivering lump in his hands. The choicest pieces are carried to the highest tables, where are seated the master of the feast and the most distinguished guests. There is usually a piece of meat to every… … An Abyssinian feeding. with his sword or knife cuts a strip a foot or fifteen inches long from the part which appears the nicest and

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