A new history of Ethiopia

being a full and accurate description of the kingdom of Abessinia : vulgarly, though erroneously called the empire of Prester John : in four books : wherein are contained : I. An account of the nature, quality and condition of the country, and inhabitants : their mountains, metals and minerals : their rivers (particularly of the source of the Nile and Niger) : their birds, beasts, amphibious animals (as the river horse and crocodile), serpents, &c. ; II. Their political government : the genealogy and succession of their Kings : a description of their court, and camp, their power and military discipline : their courts of justice, &c. ; III. Their ecclesiastical affairs : their conversion to the Christian religion, and the propagation thereof, their sacred writings, their sacraments, rites, ceremonies, and church discipline : the decrease of the Romish religion, their contentions with the Jesuits, their separation from the Greek Church, &c. ; IV. Their private oeconomy, their books and learning : their common names, their dyet, marriages, and polygamies, their mechanick arts, and trades, their burials, their merchandize and commerce, &c. : illustrated with copper plates