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The Pale Abyssinian: A Life of James Bruce, African Explorer and Adventurer
by Miles Bredin.
Flamingo, 290 pp., £7.99, March 2001,0 00 638740 3 Show More
by Miles Bredin.
Flamingo, 290 pp., £7.99, March 2001,
“... Tigrinya] and did not speak more Arabic than I do, but had with him an interpreter named Michael’. The second critic was ‘Dofter Esther’, an elderly cleric, who observed that the traveller ‘did not speak the Tigr language nor much Amharic’. Bredin also follows Bruce in claiming that he was appointed commander of the royal ... ”