A Voyage to Abyssinia
A Voyage to Abyssinia
by Father Jerome Lobo
translated from the French by Samuel Johnson.
INTRODUCTION by Henry Morley, Editor of the 1887 edition
Jeronimo Lobo was born in Lisbon in the year 1593. He entered the Order of the Jesuits at the age of sixteen. After passing through the studies by which Jesuits were trained for missionary work, which included special attention to the arts of speaking and writing, Father Lobo was sent as a missionary to India at the age of tw ...