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Narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Abyssinia during the years 1520-1527

Chapter 3: ERRATA AND NOTES.
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An eyewitness narrative records a foreign embassy's prolonged journey to a highland Christian realm in northeastern Africa, combining travelogue, ethnography, and diplomatic report. The narrator describes routes and landscapes, the architecture of remarkable rock-cut churches, and local ritual and liturgical practices. Detailed exchanges with local clergy and rulers illuminate theological and cultural interaction, while disputes within the delegation and negotiations with authorities reveal political tensions. Observations on population, governance, and the effects of external contact appear alongside descriptions of places and accounts of ceremonies, offering a varied portrait of society, religion, and interstate relations encountered during the mission.

ERRATA AND NOTES.

Page 36, line 22, for “Rodrigro”, read “Rodrigo”.

 „ 84 note, “mancal”. “Baton ferré des deux bouts”.—Roquette’s Dict.

 „ 151, line 18, for “sleeep”, read “sleep”.

 „ 178, line 28, “a crucifix painted on it”, or perhaps, “a painted crucifix on it”.

 „ 186, note. See Grove’s Dictionary of Music for a note on the Monochord.

 „ 199, note. “Alaqueca, laqueca, pierre des Indes qui arrête le flux de sang.”—Roquette’s Dict.

 „ 228, line 25, for “Bruncaliam”, read “Brancaliam”.

 „ 241. Col. Meadows Taylor describes a similar miracle play represented at Aurungabad by the Portuguese monks.—Story of my Life, p. 39.

 „ 295, line 2, for “pesons”, read “persons”.

 „ 324, last line, for “littlo”, read “little”.

 „ 325, “cap. cxvii”, read “cxviii”.

 „ 344, line 33, “Cosme, Damiano”, or the church of Saints Cosmo and Damian, martyrs united in the Calendar under 27th September.

 „ 408, note, “Tahu.” This is the Tau-cross or T-shaped crutch emblem of St. Anthony, so called from the name of the letter in the Greek alphabet.