Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia During the Years 1520-1527

Description:

The translation of Lord Stanley of Alderley (1881; First Series 64), revised and edited with additional material by C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford. Follows on from Second Series 114, with which the main pagination is continuous. Chapters 89-142 of Alvares, with the narrative of the return to Portugal, a translation of a seventeenth-century Ethiopian description of Aksum, and accounts of the rock-cut churches at Lalibala and certain other matters.

subjects: Description and travel,  Early works to 1800,  Prester John (Legendary character),  Foreign relations,  Sources,  Travel,  History,  Social life and customs

People: Prester John,  Francisco Alvares

Places: Ethiopia,  Portugal