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
Yasous II. rebellion in the beginning of his reign, ii. 616
---- defeats the Arabs, ii. 632
---- addicted to building, ii. 634
---- attacks Sennaar, ii. 636
---- defeated, ii. 639
---- irritated at the Naybe of Masuah, ii. 646
---- summons Michael Suhul to Gondar, ii. 649
---- takes him prisoner, ii. 650
---- makes a second expedition against Sennaar, ii. 655
Yasous Amha, prince of Shoa, iv. 93
---- gives the author the annals of Shoa, iv. 96
---- his account of the nations near Shoa, iv. 97
Yasous, Kefla, discovers Fasil’s stratagem, iii. 453
---- marches to Delakus, iii. 456
---- crosses the Nile, iii. 457
Yemen once subject to Abyssinia, i. 518
Z.
Za Denghel restored to the throne, ii, 242
---- converted to the Catholic faith, ii. 245
Za Selasse rebels, ii. 247
---- defeats and slays Za Denghel, ii. 250
---- defeated, ii. 257
---- joins Socinios, ii. 258
---- death and character, ii. 268, 9
Zague, prince of, slain, ii. 689
Zara Jacob, sends ambassadors to the council of Florence, ii. 69
---- persecutes the idolaters in Abyssinia, ii. 70
Zebee river, ii. 318
Zerah, i. 406
Zipporah, wife of Moses, i. 406
Zumrud, Jibbel, voyage there, i. 204
ERRATA.
INTROD. p. ix. l. 1. _for_ Abbé Vertot, _read_ Abbé la Pluche.
---- p. xix. l. 6. _for_ whole of it, _read_ whole journey.
VOL. i. p. 115. l. 7. _for_ plantions, _read_ plantations.
---- p. 148. l. 25. _for_ or field m the desert, _read_ or field,
in the desert.
---- p. 152. l. 13. _for_ kioosk, _read_ kiosk.
---- p. 214. l. 21. _for_ pafter, _read_ after.
---- p. 236. l. 5. _for_ sometimes _read_ sometime.
---- p. 281. l. 21 _for_ un unanswerable, _read_ an unanswerable.
---- p. 284. l. 1. _dele_ the star.
---- p. 284. l. 5. _for_ may have changed, the proportion _read_
may have changed the proportion.
---- p. 398. l. 10. _dele_ the star.
---- p. 444. l. 2. _for_ Babelmandeb, _read_ Babelmandel.
VOL. ii. p. 159. l. 4. _for_ from Hamazen the 12th day, _read_
from Hamazen; on the 12th day.
---- p. 620. l. 27. _for_ and same sincerity, _read_ and with
the same sincerity.
---- p. 660. l. 2. _for_ 1768, _read_ 1769.
---- p. 692. l. 27. _for_ right wing, _read_ left.
---- p. 693. l. 3. _for_ the right _read_ the left.
VOL. iii. p. 128. l. 21. _for_ eighth _read_ eighteenth.
---- p. 270. l. 9. _for_ touch, _read_ touches.
---- p. 340. l. 2. _for_ bless, _read_ bliss.
---- p. 340. l. 2. _for_ is it, _read_ it is.
---- p. 528. l. 2. _for_ met, _read_ meet.
---- p. 702. l. 27. _for_ 23-3/5 inches, _read_ 26-7/12 inches.
---- p. 702. l. 28. _for_ 24-7/10 inches, _read_ 24-9/12 inches.
---- p. 723. l. 19. _for_ tree, _read_ trees.
VOL. iv. p. 5. l. 3. _for_ most, _read_ must.
---- p. 152. _dele_ last line.
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