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
---- expedition against Sennaar, ii. 298
---- subdues Fatima queen of the Shepherds, ii. 302
---- converted to the Catholic religion, ii. 308
---- sends ambassadors to Rome, ii. 309
---- openly professes the Catholic religion, ii. 344
---- bigotted conduct, ii. 552
---- limits the power of the Catholics, ii. 359
---- grants the Abyssinians full exercise of their own religion,
ii. 396
---- death and character, ii. 397
Sofala, the Ophir of the ancients, i. 438
Spaitla, Introd. 30
Strabo, his account of Meroe, iv. 544
Suez, directions how to sail there, i. 223
Sugar canes, plantations of them in Upper Egypt, i. 81
Syene, or Assouan, i. 154
---- assumed by Eratosthenes for measuring an arch of the meridian,
i. 160
T.
Tacazze river, iii. 156, 7
---- why called Siris, i. 379
Taranta, mountain, iii. 76
Tarshish, i. 439
Tecla Haimanout I. writes in favour of Du Roule, ii. 517
---- quells a rebellion, ii. 530
---- assassinated, ii. 532
---- II. his character, ii. 709
---- the author’s first interview with him, iii. 230
---- cruelty, iv. 65
---- dangerous situation at Serbraxos, iv. 169
Tcherkin, iv. 293
Teawa, description of it, iv. 350
Teff, appen. 76
Terfowey wells, iv. 465
---- dangerous situation of the author there, iv. 566
Tesfos Ayto, governor of Samen, joins Gusho, iv. 189
---- his army cut off, iv. 192
Thebes when built, i. 380
---- destroyed by the Shepherds, i. 394
---- ruins of, i. 122
---- sepulchres, i. 125
---- description of two harps found there, i. 130
Theodorus, king, opinion about him, ii. 64
Tifilis executes the regicides, ii. 534
---- defeats the rebel Tigi, ii. 532
Tigre, province, iii. 251
Time, Abyssinian manner of computing it, iii. 351
Tot, who, i. 416
Towash Mahomet, iv. 490
---- slain in the desert, iv. 586
---- account of him, iv. 610
Trade-winds, i. 431
Troglodyte Cushites, their settlement, i. 376
---- their progress, i. 383
Tunis, Introd. i. 21
Tyre, Introd. i. 59
Tzana Lake, description of, iii. 386
W.
Waalia, append. 186
Waldubba, monks of, iii. 177
Walkuffa, append. 67
Wanzey tree, account of, app. 54
War of the Elephant, i. 510
Wechne, royal family banished there, ii. 415
Welleta Girgis, or Socinios, made king, iii. 482
---- author interview with him, iv. 46
Welleta Girgis flies from Gondar, iv. 51
Welled Sidi Boogannim, tribe of Arabs, introd. 24
Woodage Asahel, his character, iii. 421
---- reveals Fasil’s plans, iv. 32
---- bravery, iv. 200
---- slain, iv. 201
Wooginoos, or Brucea Antidysenterica, app. 69
Y.
Yambo, i. 247
Yasine, his attention to the author, iv. 329
Yasous I. his expedition to Wechne, ii. 428
---- defeats the Galla, ii. 434
---- his son rebels against him, ii. 513
---- death and character, ii. 516
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