Excerpt from Life in Abyssinia: Being Notes Collected During Three Years Residence and Travels in That Country Hoping in this edition to give the British reader a tolerably accurate idea of Abyssinia and the Abyssinians, I have omitted such portions of the former one as did not directly bear on the subject, adding in the Introduction a sketch of the political changes which have occurred since I left the country. In other respects, I have adhered to the text as it was originally written. In proper names and native words, I have endeavoured to follow the recommendation of the Royal Geographical Society, by using the Continental rather than the English pronunciation of the vowels. The gutturals, which I express by kh and gh are - the former like the German ich, the latter something like the French "accent gras" pronunciation of r. I cannot explain them better to one not acquainted with Oriental languages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.