About This Book
A Jesuit missionary recounts nine years in Abyssinia, describing efforts to bring local Christian practice into conformity with Roman Catholicism while navigating imperial patronage, court intrigue, and sudden reversals of fortune. The narrative combines lively travel episodes—marches, sea voyages, capture at Massowa, a mission to obtain ransom and support across India and Europe, shipwreck and piracy—with diplomatic appeals to rulers and church authorities. Interwoven are detailed observations of landscape, fauna, religious rites, and everyday customs, often rendered with practical curiosity and occasional humor, producing a portrait that mixes missionary purpose, adventurous hardship, and ethnographic description.
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