A sporting trip through Abyssinia : a narrative of a nine months' journey from the plains of the Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of the natives (1902)
Powell-Cotton, P. H. G. (Percy Horace Gordon), 1866-1940, Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI · London : R. Ward · leaf 151
A CURIO-DEALER XI 119 battle of Adua, where the Italians were so disastrously defeated. I paid several visits to his house, and persuaded him to let me take his photograph in Abyssinian military dress, wearing the cloak which denoted his rank of Balambaras (commandant of a fortress), and on his… … Balambaras Giorgis. bracelets weighing several pounds each, a straight, double-edged sword with an ivory handle, like an ancient Roman gladius, a spear with a very long and tapering head, hair-pins and combs of bone, and wooden pillows differing in shape from these used by the Somalis. He had also…
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