Abyssinia of to-day: An account of the first mission sent by the American government to the court of the King of Kings (1903-1904)

In the following pages will be found some account of tlie adventures and reception of tlie first mission sent by the American Government to the land we call A byssinia, but known to the inhabitants thereof as Ethiopia, together with an explanation of some of the social and political conditions there prevailing, and of which little is accurately understood. Abyssinia is merely a fragment of the ancient empire of Ethiopia ;but whether the name by which we know it is derived from Habesch, son of the founder of the peqple, or the old Egyptian word abissi, signifying desert-surrounded nation, or from the A rabic word habesca, meaning without ancestors, no one knows. We do know that the A byssinians, not ordinarily given to the study of etymology, and resentful of the irony with which that word passes through Moslem lips, have abandoned it in favour of the nobler designation of Ethiopian. To this word they have every historical and racial right.
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