[115] Guilty of our blood, and subject to the laws of retaliation.
[116] This is a large church belonging to the palace, called by this extraordinary name, Noah’s Ark.
[117] See a figure of this bird in the Appendix.
[118] Polymnia frondosa.
[119] This affected ignorance was probably intended to bring me to mention the donation the king had given me of Geesh, which he never much relished, and made effectually useless to me.
[120] It is with pleasure I confess the man then in my mind was my brave friend Sir William Erskine.
[121] The person here called old Fasil, is Kasmati Waragna, in the time of Yasous II.
[122] By this is meant the Amharic, for in Geez the word for snow is Tilze: this may have been invented for translating the scriptures.
[123] Hortus Siccus, a large book for extending and preserving dry plants.
[124] Vol. II. b. ii. chap. v.