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Narrative of the Portuguese embassy to Abyssinia during the years 1520-1527

Note 73 — PROLOGUE TO THE KING OUR SOVEREIGN. (continued 3)

Henry Edward John Stanley Stanley translation

Dagusa (Eleusine tocusso), used for bread, but more for brewing beer. Mansfield Parkyns says (vol. i, p. 265): “very little ‘teff’ is grown in this neighbourhood, but chiefly millet (mashéla) and dagousha”.

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