Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries

Remedius Prutky, Franciscan missionary, was in 1751 appointed vice-prefect of a mission sent to Ethiopia in response to an invitation by the then emperor, Iyasu II. After some delay he was summoned to Gondar, but the Coptic archbishop there soon prevailed upon the weak Emperor to expel the missionaries who had only spent seventeen months in the country. From Massawa the missionaries went to Mocha, and by courtesy of a French ship to Pondicherry, and then to L'Orient in France. They returned to Rome by way of the Canal du Midi and Marseilles. The Ethiopian adventure forms the bulk of this book, but Prutky's accounts of Mocha and of India and Ceylon as seen during six weeks in Pondicherry are of no small interest.Arrowsmith-Brown, Nicholas is the author of 'Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries' with ISBN 9780904180305 and ISBN 0904180301.