. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 5ô°ec 58°40 . 9 Miles. From Kasen another caravan route runs north- west to the Senhit uplands, and to Keren, capital of the Bogos territory. This place, surrounded by olive-groves, already lies in the kwalla zone at a height of 4,800 feet above the sea. A fortress named Senhit, like the country itself, has been built by the Egyptians at the side of the town ; but in virtue of the treaty concluded with the English it is to be evacuated and surrendered to the King of Abyssinia. Keren was the centre of the CathoKc missions in northern Abyssinia, and its large
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . 5ô°ec 58°40 . 9 Miles. From Kasen another caravan route runs north- west to the Senhit uplands, and to Keren, capital of the Bogos territory. This place, surrounded by olive-groves, already lies in the kwalla zone at a height of 4,800 feet above the sea. A fortress named Senhit, like the country itself, has been built by the Egyptians at the side of the town ; but in virtue of the treaty concluded with the English it is to be evacuated and surrendered to the King of Abyssinia. Keren was the centre of the CathoKc missions in northern Abyssinia, and its large seminary supplied numerous native priests for the churches scattered throughout the provinces of the empire. Nearly all the inhabitants of the Bogos and Mensa territories have abandoned their Mahommedan practices to re-embrace the Christian religion as taught in its new form by the Lazarist missionaries. The route descending from Asmara to the Red Sea, encircles on the north a group of projecting uplands, on one of which stands the famous monastery of Bijan 12—AF.
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