Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 edition. Excerpt: ...the boy's father, was killed in the battle between Subegadis and Ischias. She lived at Mumsa, and, through distress, had put the boy down at my door, and watched at a distance till he was taken into the house. She then went to another woman, and told her of her success, which woman she had now brought as a witness that the child was her's. She then went home to Mumsa, which is not more than five miles from Adowa, and there remained till the present time, when, having married another man and put her habitation to rights, and prospered a little this last harvest, she found herself able to provide for her child. She had three more children, but older than the one in question. The shummergildas said, that it depended upon my feelings, for, if I chose to keep the child, no one could hinder me, till I had been paid what I thought proper to charge for its maintenance from the time I bad taken it into my habitation. She had adandoned it, they said, to the mercy of the hyaenas, from whose jaws I had delivered it. She however fell at my feet and begged me to return it, declaring that she would ever pray for me; so 172 OPERATIONS OF GAS MICHAEL. I gave up the boy, who had been so fond of me, that he cried more at parting from me than he did for the first few days after he had been abandoned by his mother. He was between four and five years of age. During the last rains, several children were dropped at the doors of respectable people in this town, in the same manner; some have not as yet been owned, and some have been stolen away from the doors, as it is supposed by the parents. The Gas Guebra Michael again came to Axum, with intent to give battle to the Gas Ischias, who had become very powerful, and plundered and burnt several villages of his...
