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 64
40 THE SACRED CITY OF THE ETHIOPIANS was the motive power for this we never quite made out. The yard of an Abyssinian church is the lucus or sacred grove of the pagan temple. It is a circular inclosure, planted with shrubs and reeds of all sorts, forming a shady covering when not exposed to the… … ABYSSINIAN CHURCH BELLS day heats to read their books, and amidst which they bury their dead. At the opposite end of the church- yard to the priest lives, in a miserable hut, a withered old nun, who has been twice to Jerusalem, and is holy past all comprehension. She is clad in a filthy garment,…
