 | Albert Lee - 1906 - 400 pàgines
...partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange tales of their acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl, and its...Empire of ABYSSINIA, and the semi-Christian Island of SOCOTKA ; to speak, though indeed dimly, of ZANZIBAR, with its negroes and its ivory, and of the vast... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1908 - 528 pàgines
...acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl, and its powerful sun; the first in medieval times to give anyAfrlcaaliio 'distinct account of the secluded Christian * Empire...Island of Socotra; to speak, though indeed dimly, of Zanzibar with its negroes and its ivory, and of the vast and distinct Madagascar, bordering on the... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1908 - 524 pàgines
...partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange tales of their acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl, and its...powerful sun; the first in medieval times to give anyAfrlcaiibo distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia, and the semi-Christian... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - 1911 - 1008 pàgines
...Andaman Islands, of Ceylon and its sacred peak, of India but as a country seen and partially explored ; the first in medieval times to give any distinct account...of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia, and of the semi-Christian island of Sokotra, and to speak, however dimly, of Zanzibar, and of the vast... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs - 1912 - 214 pàgines
...personally explored, with its virtuous Brahmans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds, and the strange tales of their acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl, and its powerful sun : the first in mediceval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian empire of Abyssinia, and the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc - 1913 - 464 pàgines
...Andaman Islands, of Ceylon and its sacred peak, of India but as a country seen and partially explored; the first in medieval times to give any distinct account...of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia, and of the semiChristian island of Sokotra, and to speak, however dimly, of Zanzibar, and of the vast and... | |
 | Esther Singleton - 1916 - 324 pàgines
...acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl, and its powerful sun; the first in medieval times to give any Africa algo distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire...Island of Socotra; to speak, though indeed dimly, of Zanzibar with its negroes and its ivory, and of the vast and distinct Madagascar, bordering on the... | |
 | Eileen Power - 1927 - 258 pàgines
...tales of their acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl and its powerful sun ; the first in modern limes to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia, to speak, though indeed dimly, of Zanzibar with its negroes and its ivory and of the vast and distant... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 680 pàgines
...partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange tales of their acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl and its powerful sun ; the first in mediaeval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian empire of Abyssinia and the... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1872 - 722 pàgines
...dream-land of Alexandrian fables, but as a country seen and partially explored ; and the first in mediaeval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian empire of Abyssinia, of Madagascar on the edge of the Southern darkness, and of Siberia on that of the North.' Why was the... | |
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... times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia, and the semi-Christian Island of Socotra; to speak, though indeed dimly, of... 
