Note 18 — Chapter VI · PORTUGAL AND ABYSSINIA

In Lobo’s book the date is given as 1613, but Bruce shows with some likelihood that, according to the native Abyssinian chronicles, the date of Paez’ visit to the sources of the Blue Nile was probably 1615. In the Latin version of Paez’ account of his travels, published at Rome in 1652 by the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher, the date given is the 21st of April, 1618.