The source of the Blue Nile

by Arthur J. Hayes

[178]“The Highlands of Ethiopia,” vol. iii. p. 148.

[179]Ib.

[180]This was the “Sultan Segued” who caused the still existing bridge over the Blue Nile to be built. See [p. 147.]

[181]“The Highlands of Ethiopia,” vol. iii. p. 186.

[182]“Life in Abyssinia,” p. 295.

[183]“Wanderings among the Falashas,” p. 306.

[184]P. 136.

[185]“Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia,” 1520-27, translated and edited by Lord Stanley of Alderley, Hakluyt Society, 1881.

[186]“History of Ethiopia,” made English by J. P. Gent, 1684.

[187]The reader need hardly be reminded that the same interdiction is in force elsewhere. It is the refusal of the connubium that renders the British population in the East of London and elsewhere unable to assimilate the large colonies of Jews who have lately immigrated into this country, and in great part causes the difficulties of the “Alien Question.” The subject has been treated in Major Evans Gordon’s very interesting book, “The Alien Immigrant” (1903).