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Bruce vol III

chalaka 876

the Shalaka is a red short cloak lined & turned up with mazarine blue & is the badge of the king's servant (30)


[arabe]

masuah is in lat. 15° 35' 5 long. 39° 36' 30 variation of the needle 12° 48' in September 1769.


skin 878

All the nations in Africa are wonderfully affected if any thing oils their skin. but scan & wounds are no blemish (37)


maladie 879

the hanzeer (hogs) is a savelling of the glands of the throat which runs when opened.


nourriture 880

rice & pillaw are the but food: fowls are bad, eggs worse & greens not wholesome.


musique 881

in Azab, the myrrh country the songs are rather musical (51)


[arabe]

in Masuah they burn myrrh & incense in their houses before opening there in the morning.


monnaie 883

the contaria or glass beads are there called borjooke. real = 28 harf ; 1 harf = 4 diwani ; 10 kibar = 1 diwan ; 1 kibeer = 3 borjooke (53) much is gained on old copper.


mesures 884

the cuba, wooden measure. = 62 cubic inches if rain water. the drachm is called caffla ; their are 10 cafflas in the wakea.


elephans 885

between hamhamo & shillokee we saw the dang of elephants.


hadas 886

samhar inhabited by the shiho from hamhamo 10 Taranta is called hadassa.


arze, virginia or berry bearing cedar.


moutons

I never saw any white sheep in Tögray (82)


889 pour dögsa

Isaie iij 22 for the louse - head - pin.


890

michael farmed Dixan to the Naybe (86) it is in 14° 57' 55 & 40° 7' 30


Bruce's black horse cost £12.


oiseaux

birds breed twice a year


livre 893

Christians & falasha admit that it is lawful to kill eat what is killed by a lion


peages

duties are called awides i.e. gifts.


blé 895

in Tögray a good harvest produces 9 to 1. for peas 3. the landlord gives the sed and receives 1/2 the produce.


teinture 896

the plant called suf gives their only color for dyeing i.e. yellow.


obelisk

the obelisk drawn by Bruce his [pillars?] perpendicular to the Axis, and a door with our Egyptian bolt. B. saw at Axum 133 pedestals of statues.


Axum 898

Axum is watered by a small stream which always flows from a fountain in the narrow valley where stand the rows of obelisks: it is received in a superb hasou 150 feet square. there are 600 houses, & manufacturers of cotton cloths