[76]“This official is called a ‘balderabba,’ and is intrusted with a traveller’s safety” (Stern, “Wanderings among the Falashes,” p. 96), and “becomes a sort of agent, and expects you to acknowledge by presents, any service he may render you, such as assisting you out of difficulties in which you may be involved” (Parkyns, “Life in Abyssinia,” p. 72)
[77]Quoted in “Abyssinia Described,” p. 129.
[78]“Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia,” by Hormuzd Rassam, F.R.G.S. Murray, 1896. Vol. i. pp. 317, 318.
[80]“Mittheilungen der Afrikanischen Gesellschaft in Deutschland,” 1881, vol. iii. pp. 24, 25.
[81]“The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia,” pp. 492-496.
[82]Cf. such a Spanish name for a man as José Maria.
[83]“Narrative of the British Mission to King Theodore,” vol. i. p. 229.
[84]“Narrative of the British Mission to King Theodore,” vol. i. p. 314.
[85]“Mittheilungen der Afrikanischen Gesellschaft in Deutschland,” 1881, vol. iii. p. 27.