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SOME of our contemporaries, referring to the recent death of King Theodore's son, Prince AlumayÛ, speak of him as if he were an African of the ordinary Negro type. This is perhaps on the whole a fair gauge of the popular ideas still prevalent regarding the natives of the Dark Continent. Yet, though the standard is not of a high order, it must be confessed that in the present case some little confusion might well be pardoned, considering the many difficulties attaching to the subject of Abyssinian ethnology. Indeed it would be no easy matter even for a sound ethnologist to answer the question off-hand, who was Prince AlumayÛ? To do so accurately implies a clear knowledge of a very complicated problem, to the elucidation of which a few lines may be welcomed by the readers of NATURE, in connection with an event of some political importance and presenting a very striking parallel in more than one respect to the death of the late Prince Louis Napoleon in Zululand.
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KEANE, A. Who Was Prince AlumayÛ? . Nature 21, 61–62 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021061a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/021061a0