Abyssin

We plied along the coast in this uncertainty two days, till on the first of March having doubled a point of land, which came out a great way into the sea, we found ourselves in the middle of a fair large bay, which many reasons induced us to think was Baylur; that we might be farther assured we sent our Abyssin on shore, who returning next morning confirmed our opinion.

A Voyage to Abyssinia Jeronimo Lobo 1637

Abyssin takes the honey, without failing to leave part of it for the bird, to reward him for his information.

A Voyage to Abyssinia Jeronimo Lobo 1637

This prince, besides his ill will to Sultan Segued, which was kept up by some malcontents among the Abyssin nobility, who, provoked at the conversion of their master, were plotting a revolt, entertained an inveterate hatred against the Portuguese for the death of his grandfather, who had been killed many years before, which he swore the blood of the Jesuits should repay.

A Voyage to Abyssinia Jeronimo Lobo 1637

We saw them make signals from thence, and imagining they would come to a parley, sent out our boat with two sailors and an Abyssin, putting the ships off from the shore, to set them free from any suspicion of danger in coming down.

A Voyage to Abyssinia Jeronimo Lobo 1637

The sight of it filled the whole camp with acclamations; every one applauded the valour and good fortune of the Abyssin, and no reward was thought great enough for so important a service.

A Voyage to Abyssinia Jeronimo Lobo 1637

We arrived at Goa in some vessels bound for Camberia: here we lost a good old Abyssin convert, a man much valued in his order, and who was actually prior of his convent when he left Abyssinia, choosing rather to forsake all for religion than to leave the way of salvation, which God had so mercifully favoured him with the knowledge of.

A Voyage to Abyssinia Jeronimo Lobo 1637

The Abyssin stood confused, and the Portuguese produced the ear out of his pocket.

A Voyage to Abyssinia Jeronimo Lobo 1637

Every one commended the stratagem; and the Emperor commanded the Abyssin to restore all the presents he had received, and delivered them with many more to Peter Leon.

A Voyage to Abyssinia Jeronimo Lobo 1637

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-- In a large Country house, surrounded with Trees, and in which the number of Apartments enables the Inhabitants to emigrate from one side of the house to the other, as the Abyssin - ian Shepherds, from the forests to the deserts, -- in such a house the aspect is of less importance, and the house may be located with a regard to the View, to the range of a hill, or of the road leading to it.

Thomas Jefferson and the National Capital: Containing Notes and Correspondence exchanged between Jefferson, Washington, L'Enfant, Ellicott, Hallett, Thornton, Latrobe, the Commissioners, and others 1797