[Footnote 197: “Wanderings among the Falashas,” p. 188.] [Footnote 198: Greenberg and Co., 80, Chancery Lane, London.] [Footnote 199: Hotten, pp. 167, 168.] [Footnote 200: Dufton, “A Journey through Abyssinia,” p. 143.] [Footnote 201: The ancient city of Axum is remarkable for the ruins and other traces of an early and extinct civilization which it contains. These have been the occasion of much speculation among archæologists. An account of the obelisks and other remains was given by Bruce; Mr. Wylde has made some interesting comments on the subject in his chapter on Axum; many writers on Abyssinia have referred to it at some length; and the late Mr. Theodore Bent dealt with the antiquities of the place in “The Sacred City of the Ethiopians” (Longmans, Green and Co., 1893).] [Footnote 202: Augustus Wylde, “Modern Abyssinia,” pp. 18, 407.] [Footnote 203: See p. 143.] [Footnote 204: Hotten, p. 167.] [Footnote 205: Plowden, quoted by Hotten, p. 166. Plowden’s description applies to the fifties of the nineteenth century.] [Footnote 206: “The British Mission to Abyssinia,” vol. i. p. 209.] [Footnote 207: “According to Abyssinian tradition, the King of Tigre, soon after his conversion to Christianity, crossed the Taccazze, and invaded Simien and Amhara. Here he met a people who were neither Pagans nor Christians, a marvel which aroused the monarch’s curiosity, and he inquired what they believed; to which, in a laconic style, they replied in their own dialect, _Kam Ant_, _i.e._ ‘as thou,’ from whence they obtained their present appellation.”] [Footnote 208: “Wanderings among the Falashas,” p. 42 _seq._] [Footnote 209: “Modern Abyssinia,” p. 144.] [Footnote 210: “Highlands of Ethiopia,” vol. iii. p. 393.] [Footnote 211: Hotten, p. 120.] [Footnote 212: Ib. p. 186.] [Footnote 213: “Life in Abyssinia,” p. 366.] [Footnote 214: “Wanderings among the Falashas,” chap. ix; Hotten, p. 121.] [Footnote 215: See, _e.g._ “Life in Abyssinia,” p. 368.] [Footnote 216: “Modern Abyssinia,” p. 310.] [Footnote 217: Hotten, p. 183 _seq._] [Footnote 218: “The Highlands of Ethiopia,” vol. iii. p. 184.] [Footnote 219: Hotten, p. 158.] [Footnote 220: See, _e.g._ p. 121.] [Footnote 221: “Abyssinia,” p. 204.] [Footnote 222: “Life in Abyssinia,” p. 254.] [Footnote 223: “Life in Abyssinia,” pp. 255, 256.] [Footnote 224: Parkyns, pp. 266, 267.] [Footnote 225: “Modern Abyssinia,” p. 181 _seq._ “Life in Abyssinia,” p. 256 _seq._] [Footnote 226: “The British Mission to Abyssinia,” vol. ii. p. 219.] [Footnote 227: In matters of detail this account applies, of course, to Abyssinia in the first half of the nineteenth century.] [Footnote 228: “The Highlands of Ethiopia,” vol. iii. pp. 166-168.] [Footnote 229: Hotten, p. 137.] [Footnote 230: “Wanderings among the Falashas,” p. 119.] [Footnote 231: “Life in Abyssinia,” p. 268.] [Footnote 232: Johnson’s translation.] [Footnote 233: “Abyssinia,” p. 232.]