Portraits of Ozoro Esther, wife of Ras Michael, her daughter Tecla Mariam and chief Kefla Yasous of Abyssinia, in head ornament worn after the victory of all Kasmatis. Copperplate engraving from James Bruce's "Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773," London, 1790. James Bruce (1730-1794) was a Scottish explorer and travel writer who spent more than 12 years in North Africa and Ethiopia. Illustration engraved by James Heath after an original drawing by Bruce.

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