Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5.Bruce, James
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Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5.
Bruce, James
Natural history -- Egypt; Natural history -- Ethiopia; Nile River; Plants -- Egypt; Plants -- Ethiopia; Scientific expeditions -- Egypt
Michael Suhul, governor of Tigre, refuses to obey the king’s orders,
ii. 649
---- taken prisoner, ii. 650
---- advances in the king’s favour, ii. 652
---- restored to his government, ii. 654
---- called by the king to defend him against Mariam Barea, ii. 680
---- marches to Gondar, ii. 681
---- restores order in the capital, ii. 684
---- marches against Mariam Barea, ii. 686
---- defeats him, ii. 693
---- rupture with the king, ii. 704
---- defeats Fasil, ii. 705
---- assassinates the king, ii. 706
---- puts Hannes II. to death, ii. 709
---- defeats Fasil, ii. 715
---- author’s first interview with him, iii. 217
Michael Suhul his character, vol iii. p. 226
---- conspiracy formed against him, iii. 375
---- forced to leave Gondar, iii. 479
---- cruelty on his return to Gondar, iv. 72, 5
---- impolitic conduct, iv. 111
---- defeats Gusho and Powussen at Serbraxos, iv. 144
---- retreats to Gondar, iv. 224
---- made prisoner, iii. 240
Mocha, meaning of that name, i. 442
Mohannan, the ancient Memphis, i. 54
Montes Lunæ of the ancients, i. 378
Moroc, description of, appen. 178
Mudgid cuts off the royal family at Wechne, ii. 169
N.
Nacueta Laab resigns the crown of Abyssinia, i. 532
Nagashi what, i. 524
Narea, kingdom, account of, ii. 312
Nearchus sails from India to the Persian Gulf, i. 455
---- enters the Red Sea, i. 456
Nebuchadnezzar, dispute about his canonization, iii. 367
Nero attempts to discover the source of the Nile, iii. 613
Niger, cause of its increase, iii. 719
---- not a branch of the Nile, iii. 720
Nile description of the cataract above Syene, i. 156
---- discovery of its sources, iii. 580
---- attempted by the ancients, iii. 606
---- description of its sources, iii. 634
---- course of that river, iii. 644
---- names, iii. 654
---- cause of its inundation iii. 658
---- inquiry if possible to change its course, iii. 712
---- great cataract, iii. 425
---- memorable passage of, iii. 448
Nilometer, iii. 690
---- changed by Omar, iii. 716
Norden’s voyage, account of, iii. 630
Nuba, their character, iv. 419
---- religion, iv. 420
---- author kindly received by them, iv. 423
Nucta, iii. 716
O.
Omar conquers Egypt, iii. 689
Ombi, men-eaters, i. 142
Ophir, voyage to, account of, i. 433
Osiris not the sun, but the dog-star, i. 412
Oustas usurps the throne, ii. 540
---- favourable to the Catholic religion, ii. 569
---- deposed, ii. 572
P.
Paez Peter enters Abyssinia, ii. 244
---- converts Za Denghel, ii. 245
---- builds a convent at Gorgora, ii. 266
---- converts Socinios, ii. 344
---- his death and character, ii. 344
---- his pretensions to discover the source of the Nile confuted,
iii. 617
Palestine, various nations fled from it, i. 399
Palmyra, ruins, introd. 57
Papyrus, ships made of it, i. 370
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