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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 Eudolf in the 
presence of relations and friends in church. 
