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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 427

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ffered him some, asking him, at the same time, if he had a pipe. He immediately pulled out a "gadouse," such as the Bedouins smoke, and, filling it, began to smoke away like an old-fashioned chimney, remarking only that to his taste my tobacco was too mild. The " gadouse " is merely a bent tube,… … At about five o'clock in the afternoon we entered a hamlet belonging to Cattarif. A hut was immediately provided for our lodging, but as it was very small and full * The para is a small Turkish coin, which, like the French centime, is more imaginary than real. The smallest coin in common…

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