Show odd origin of custom in abyssinia the emperor Is corn conly called jan hoy meaning his majesty the words have a strange history it Is given by a passage in the chronicle of macdara maryam the king sarga dengel while engaged in a military expedition camped in dambra was surprised to hear the inhabitants shout jan hoy which means HI elephant at an elephant which was destroying a field of 4 and fled when thus accosted then the king said that whenever he went to pillage corn it the people cried jan hoy he would consider their claims and redress their wrongs from this arose the custom ot ad dressing the king as jan hoy as an equivalent tor asking tor justice the gradually losing its cial and becoming the or binary term ot address when speaking ot his majesty |