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EASTERN ETHIOPIA 



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visit of white men in the early days of European 

 exploration of Africa. 



This fashion of selecting names from passing or 

 uncommon events is by no means confined to 

 Ethiopians. The wife of a clergyman at Berne, 

 Switzerland, gave birth to a daughter at dawn, 



An Unmarried Girl (Ndito) of the Kissii Tribe. 



May 19th, 1910, when Halley's comet was nearest to 

 the earth ; the mother insisted on calling her new-born 

 daughter Cometa in honour of the aerial visitor. The 

 girl child was duly christened Cometa Rudolf in the 

 presence of relations and friends in church. 



