PRUTKYS REISEN NACH ÄTHIOPIEN & andere Länder 1750er Jahre. Hakluyt. Afrika, Asien
PRUTKY'S TRAVELS IN ETHIOPIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES Translated and edited by J. H. ARROWSMITH-BROWN annotated by RICHARD PANKHURST THE HAKLUYT SOCIETY 1991 22 x 14 cm. xxviii + 546 pp. HB/DJ An important source of information on 18th century Ethiopia. Remedius Prutky, Franciscan missionary, was in 1751 appointed vice-prefect of a mission sent to Ethiopia in response to an invitation by the then emperor, lyasu II; with two colleagues he left Cairo in August and reached Massawa in November. After some delay he was summoned to Gondar, which he reached in March, and, largely by his expertise in medicine, began to make friends among the court and the clergy. But the Coptic archbishop at Gondar soon prevailed upon the weak Emperor to expel the missionaries, who thus spent only nine months at Gondar, and seventeen months in the country altogether.
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