Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 2 (of 5) / In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773

A travel narrative that interweaves the author’s expedition with translated Abyssinian annals, offering continuous chronologies of successive rulers and public events. It presents detailed accounts of campaigns, political maneuvers, and religious disputes alongside diplomatic contact and foreign involvement. The on-the-ground reporting includes landscape and logistical observations, illnesses among troops, encounters with opposing forces, and ceremonial practices such as the consecration of water. Taken together, the volume aims to situate local customs, institutional religion, and regional power dynamics within a combined eyewitness and documentary framework.