Show abyssinian jews jew only jewish mountaineers the only jenish mountaineers in the world are said to live in abyssinia I 1 these Fo l lashas ns as they coil call inhabit the highlands of what was once part of the ancient kingdom of the north of the negus country the Fola hove have a typical jewish appearance but lack most of the conventional vent ional habits and attributes of that race neither they nor their ancestors have ever engaged in trude trade they are ti appers and rarely mingle with the aby in the towns and villages of the lowland they adhere to the biblical bradl lions of the ancestors practice the usual rites and perform a rude imitation of the passover ceremonies they have neither temples nor rabble rab lils lo in the fastnesses fast nesses of their mountains they preserve in a quaint mahogany casket a venerable parchment copy 0 of the pentateuch which their chiefs allege came down doun to them direct train king solomon through the queen of sheba during the coronation of ras tat farl arl as emperor of abyssinia representatives senta tives of 0 the tribes presented to the hie new monarch a copy of the manuscripts which king solomon serif sent the queen of sheba before they were worried married these are said to contain the eur earliest liest known love letters from a ino monarch narell to his royal consort |