Abai

I couldn’t make this out: the stream was flowing into the lake, and I knew the Abai, which is the Blue Nile, should run out of Tana — and thereby hangs a tale, which I heard first from Uliba as we crouched under the broad leaves of a baobab to shelter from the hailstorm, and again years later from the Great Bore of the Nile himself, Daft Dick Burton, at the Travellers’ Club.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

Furthermore, work seems to continue apace on certain Almaty facilities, such as the arena at Cosmonotov (Baityrsunov) - Abai.

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Yes Sorry = I forgot all 350 names…Khurum Abai, Confucious… and many other Adepts of the Magi..such as Moses,,,,my bad.

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“Baheerdar,” says I, “where the Abai river leaves the east bank of Lake Tana,” and would have gone for her in earnest, but she burst out laughing and slid from my grasp, catching my wrists in hands surprisingly strong.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

“It is our business to know who comes and goes along the Abai, and when a foreigner speaking Arabic comes from the north, who should it be but the expected traveller from … Hyderabad, or some such name?”

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

“Here at Azez we are forty miles from Gorgora, at the head of the lake; another fifty at most to Zage, and perhaps fifty down the Abai —”

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

There you will follow the east bank of the lake as far as Baheerdar where the Abai (* The Blue Nile.) river leaves the lake.

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

“Masteeat has her camp on the Abai river, below the falls which the people of Metcha call the Great Silver Smoke.”

Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005

This Mys is known to have come to Lebadeia and to have persuaded by payment of money one of the natives of the place to go down to Trophonios, and also he came to the Oracle at Abai of the Phokians; and moreover when he came for the first time to Thebes, he not only consulted the Ismenian

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

Delphi, others to Abai of the Phokians, and others to Dodona; and some were sent to the shrine of Amphiaraos and to that of

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003