This country is part of the land of Chus, and is to the west of Abyssinia.

It is an old question, on which there is great diversity of opinion, as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile; but the Egyptians suppose, that it proceeds from the falling of heavy rains in the land of Habash, which we call Havilah or Abyssinia.

There come many also from the western empire of the Ishmaelites or Arabs, as from Andalusia, Algarve, Africa, and even Arabia, besides what come by the Indian ocean from Havilah or Abyssinia, and the rest of Ethiopia, not omitting the Greeks and Turks.

E. Benjamin here obviously speaks of the Jews in the mountains of Abyssinia, still known there under the name of Falassa.

At that place Johnson translated a Voyage to Abyssinia, written by Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese missionary.

It contains a narrative of the endeavours of a company of missionaries to convert the people of Abyssinia to the church of Rome.

Then follows a description of Abyssinia, formerly the largest empire of which we have an account in history.

From Abyssinia, the river passes into the countries of Fazulo and Ombarca, two vast regions little known, inhabited by nations entirely different from the Abyssins.

As the empire of Abyssinia terminates at these descents, Lobo followed the course of the Nile no farther, leaving it to rage over barbarous kingdoms, and convey wealth and plenty into Aegypt, which owes to the annual inundations of this river its envied fertility[f].

Lobo never saw snow in Abyssinia, except on mount Semen, in the kingdom of Tigre, very remote from the Nile; and on Namara, which is, indeed, nor far distant, but where there never falls snow enough to wet, when dissolved, the foot of the mountain.

"I know no other way out than through the Straits of Babelmandeb, by Abyssinia, of which country I should like to have a description.

"The present Bishop of Jerusalem went to Abyssinia some years ago; and he has sketched a few interesting particulars concerning the people. '

It contains, not only much valuable matter relative to Egypt and Abyssinia, but many interesting anecdotes, of which we give a specimen.

In a neighbouring state to that of Abyssinia, the king, when appointed to the regal dignity, retires into an island, and is never again visible to the eyes of men but oncewhen his ministers come to strangle him; for it may not be that the proud monarch of Behr should die a natural death.

Q. What Country south of Nubia? A. Abyssinia.

'Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, An Eastern Tale, by Doctor Johnson.

Abyssinia, A Voyage to, i. 86.

Mag. i. 91. 1735 Publishes Lobo's Abyssinia, i. 87.

Query in Abyssinia.

Mrs. Charles Boxer (Emily Hahn) (A); 27Nov63; R326974. Miss Baine and Abyssinia, by Emily Hahn.

WHERE WOMAN COMMANDS If we now return from the West Coast to Eastern Africa we find on the northern confines of Abyssinia a strange case of the subjection of men, which Munzinger has described in his Ostafrikanische Studien (275-338).

" The four volumes of Combes and Tamisier on Abyssinia give a vivid idea of the utter absence of sexual morality in that country.

"But what one never finds with anyone in Abyssinia is that refined and pure sentiment which gives so much charm to love in Europe.

Jealousy, they found further, "is practically unknown in Abyssinia," "If jealousy is manifested occasionally by women we must not deceive ourselves regarding the nature of this feeling; when an Abyssinienne envies the love another inspires she is jealous only of the comfort which that love may insure for the other" (II., Chap. V.).

" GALLA COARSENESS South of Abyssinia there are three peoplesthe Galla, Somali, and Harariamong some of whom, if we may believe Dr. Paulitschke, the germs of true love are to be found.