[198]Greenberg and Co., 80, Chancery Lane, London.
[199]Hotten, pp. 167, 168.
[200]Dufton, “A Journey through Abyssinia,” p. 143.
[201]The ancient city of Axum is remarkable for the ruins and other traces of an early and extinct civilization which it contains. These have been the occasion of much speculation among archæologists. An account of the obelisks and other remains was given by Bruce; Mr. Wylde has made some interesting comments on the subject in his chapter on Axum; many writers on Abyssinia have referred to it at some length; and the late Mr. Theodore Bent dealt with the antiquities of the place in “The Sacred City of the Ethiopians” (Longmans, Green and Co., 1893).
[202]Augustus Wylde, “Modern Abyssinia,” pp. 18, 407.
[204]Hotten, p. 167.
[205]Plowden, quoted by Hotten, p. 166. Plowden’s description applies to the fifties of the nineteenth century.
[206]“The British Mission to Abyssinia,” vol. i. p. 209.
[207]“According to Abyssinian tradition, the King of Tigre, soon after his conversion to Christianity, crossed the Taccazze, and invaded Simien and Amhara. Here he met a people who were neither Pagans nor Christians, a marvel which aroused the monarch’s curiosity, and he inquired what they believed; to which, in a laconic style, they replied in their own dialect, Kam Ant, i.e. ‘as thou,’ from whence they obtained their present appellation.”