A voyage to Abyssinia,
and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years 1809 and 1810; in which are included, an account of the Portuguese settlements on the east coast of Africa, visited in the course of the voyage; a concise narrative of late events in Arabia Felix; and some particulars respecting the aboriginal African tribes, extending from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt; together with vocabularies of their respective languages.
By Henry Salt, esq.

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Main Author

Salt, Henry, 1780-1827

Related Names

Bailey, Lydia R., 1779-1869, printer.
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839, publisher.
Wells and Lilly

Language(s)

English

Published

Philadelphia, Published by M. Carey, and Wells and Lilly, Boston. Printed by Lydia R. Bailey. 1816.

Subjects

African languages
Africa, East > Africa, East / Description and travel
Ethiopia > Ethiopia / Description and travel
Dictionaries
Travel writing

Physical Description

xxi, [13]-454 p. front. (fold. map) illus. (facsims.) 24 cm.

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