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Notes & References
Over a thousand square miles in size, Lake Tana's old time villages include from the north side clockwise, at 12 o'clock Gogora, 4 o'clock Korata, 5 Bahardar, 6 Zage, 8 Adina. While these villages surround the lake they are located some miles from its shores. Its shore line divides almost unnoticeable into low islands strewn with black lava boulders and overgrown with jungle.
A small village named Gish is the source of a river flowing into Lake Tana and thus makes it and the lake (ca. 6000 feet above sea level) the source of the so-called Blue Nile (Big Abbai), which winds its way for 2750 miles to the Mediterranean Sea. In the jungle near the lake were from old times on no native villages. The climate at this altitude can be from very hot changing quickly to cold.
The city of Sennar used to be the capital of an ancient kingdom whose border in the west was Kordofan (not shown), in the east the Red Sea and in the north to almost Egypt.
The source of the White Nile in Uganda is the Kagara River flowing into Lake Victoria. The landscape supports tropical trees: acacia trees, lotus, the banyan and the alien eucalyptus trees, palms and water ferns and the shady baobab tree.
Population: Ethiopia 79.935 million; Eritrea 5.006 million; Uganda 29.194 million; Tanzania 40.213 million; Rwanda 9.609 million; Burundi 8.856 million.
Early 16th Century
Early in the 16th century the Muslim country of Adal, approximate borders in blue, attacked the Christian nation of Ethiopia. This was a Muslim jihad, a holy war to them, but it was backed by the powerful Ottoman church and they overwhelmed the Ethiopian forces on their wide front. The Ethiopian emperor in desperation called upon the Portuguese to help. After a long time, in 1541 the Portuguese arrived in what is now Eritrea. He did not know then that he had invited the fox to guard the hen house.
The priest Evan de Gava, son of Vasco de Gava, commanded a band of 400 musketeers. Their mission: `Rescue Christian Ethiopia.'
It was a costly effort. In the first major battle the Portuguese took heavy casualties. Evan de Gava himself was captured and beheaded by the Muslim commander. But then, with the help of the surviving Portuguese force, the Ethiopian emperor was able to beat back the invaders in 1543, ending the Muslim threat. But a few years later a new threat emerged when Jesuit missionaries followed in the footsteps of the Portuguese troops. Using the most cruel punishments these Jesuit troops brought the Ethiopian Church into the Roman fold. But there were major differences between the Ethiopian orthodox church and the Roman Catholic Church. Not the least of which was that the Ethiopian Church kept the seventh day Sabbath, a practice that predated for at least a thousand years. Finally wavering the Ethiopian leader succumbed in 1622 and declared that Roman Catholicism was now the official religion of Ethiopia.
Northern Ethiopia's Cretaceous Chalk Formation is Intercontinental
Those rocks extent from northern Ethiopia, appear again at the White Cliffs in England, and pick up again at the eastern sea board of the United States from which they extend for 1600 miles to near the city of Austin in Central Texas. In Texas a fossil plant was found which extended through three layers, 8 inches into the one below the main portion of the compressed plant and the rest of the plant up through that layer into the one above which must have taken place within a few hours rather than millions of years. We are talking about three separate continents involved in that sedimentary deposit the contain that fossil. There is only one explanation, it was deposited during a world wide Flood - in the days of Noah. Such discoveries are not rare and vindicate the Creation account as we find it in the Book of Genesis, the first Book of Moses, in the Bible. [See `Austin Chalk,' Cretaceous Formation is Intercontinental. Derek Ager, `Persistence of Facies,' John Wiley & Sons: NY, `Nature of the Stratigraphic Record, pp. 1-14.]
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