(Bruce, vol. III. and vol. IV., pp. 23-90, and Salt's Second Journey to
Abyssinia, II. 270, etc.; both these are quoted from French versions
which are alone available to me, the former by Castera, Londres, 1790,
the latter by P. Henry, Paris, 1816; Fr. Th. Rink, Al Macrisi, Hist.
Rerum Islamiticarum in Abyssinia, etc., Lugd. Bat. 1798; Rueppell,
Dissert. on Abyss. Hist. and Chronology in his work on that country;
Quat. Makr. II. 122-123; Quat. Mem. sur l'Egypte, II. 268, 276.)
NOTE 6. - The last words run in the G.T.: "Il ont singles de plosors
maineres. Il ont gat paulz (see note 2, ch. xxiii. supra), et autre
gat maimon si devisez qe pou s'en faut de tiel hi a qe ne senblent a vix
d'omes." The beautiful cocks and hens are, I suppose, Guinea fowl.
[We read in the Si Shi ki: "There is (in Western Asia) a large bird,
above 10 feet high, with feet like a camel, and of bluish-grey colour. When
it runs it flaps the wings. It eats fire, and its eggs are of the size of a
sheng" (a certain measure for grain). (Bretschneider, Med. Res., I. pp.
143-144.) Dr. Bretschneider gives a long note on the ostrich, called in
Persian shutur-murg (camel-bird), from which we gather the following
information:
