Note 118 — IX. KING THEODORE OF ABYSSINIA.[115]
J. Sutherland (John Sutherland) Black translation
I repeat the story exactly as given in the Amharic biography. D’Abbadie at the time heard a somewhat different version in Gondar (L’Abyssinie et le roi Théodore, Paris 1868). D’Abbadie partly differs also in his order of events from the Abyssinian writer whom I follow; perhaps he may in some instances be right, but in others he has indubitably been misled by inaccurate recollection or by false information.