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 97
73 JOURNEY NORTHWARDS sinians, from the cliief to tlie peasant, and it reached the British Museum unbroken. This game is called Gabatta, and. the wooden boards made by the better class contain eighteen holes, nine for each person. There are three balls called Chachtma for each hole, and the game is… … ABYSSINIAN GAME the game we saw played by the negroes in Mashona- land, and is generally found in one form or another in the countries where Arab influence has at one time or another been felt. The summit of Debra Sina is just a mass of gigantic boulder rocks piled one on the other, and on the top…
