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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.

ILLUSTRATED WITH
A MAP OF ABYSSINIA.




BY HENRY SALT, ESQ. F. R. S. &c.




"Providentiam divinam summis laudibus celebrandam quod inter tot barbaros, inter tot Muhammedanorum persecutiones Ecclesiam Æthiopicam in Africa per tot secula conservaverit."——Speech of Ernest Duke of Saxony to Father Gregory. Vide Ludolfi Comment.




PUBLISHED BY M. CAREY, PHILADELPHIA,
AND WELLS & LILLY, BOSTON.

PRINTED BY LYDIA R. BAILEY.



1816.