The sacred city of the Ethiopians, being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893 (1896)
Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897, Müller, David Heinrich, 1846-1912, Garson, J. G. (John George) · London ; New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 115
91 ON THE EOAD TO A]30UA of the Dolomites, jagged, fantastic peaks of every form and sliape, looking mysteriously weird and fasci- nating, more especially as tliey are still the home of the free and independent Ethiopians, the strongholds of rebel chiefs, and for us a sort of promised land … ABYSSINIANS WINNOWING GEAIN after our long delays and wanderings in the Italian colony. Near Addi Quala there are some patches of fer- tility ; but the cholera scourge, drought, and other causes have had, as elsewhere, a ruinous effect here. We saw a picturesque group of men winnowing a sort of…