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 329
A RUINED CHURCH 297 XXVI In fact the whole place had far more the appearance of a fort than any church I had ever seen, and no doubt in the old days the strife of battle had often raged round its walls, for it was here that the people left their treasures in the keeping of the priests, and… … The Watch-Tower of the Emperor Fasildas. between it and the church. At the top two priests and several of the villagers met me and took me over to the church. As this was the finest example of the usual Abyssinian style of church architecture which I saw in all my journey, some account of it may be…
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