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 240
208 THE SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS Egyptian chairs, and made with thongs of skin fas- tened to the woodwork, which is joined together exactly on the old Egyptian principle. Two panels let into the back of the chair are prettily carved, and no sooner did we express a wish to acquire this … ABYSSINIAN CHAIR article than the Kantiba presented it to us, and thus we made this rather formidable addition to our already weighty baggage. That evening we halted at Saganeiti, and sent the Kantiba of Maraba a return present of a white umbrella, with which, I believe, he was highly delighted.
