Excerpt from Journal of a Three Years' Residence in Abyssinia, in Furtherance of the Objects of the Church Missionary Society The Author of the following Journal having been raised to an eminent station in the Church, much interest has been excited in this record of his early Missionary labours, and a considerable demand has arisen for this work, which has been long out of print. Under these circumstances it has been determined to reprint the Journal, and to prefix a brief notice of the Author's Missionary history. Samuel Gobat was born on the 26th of January, 1799, at Cremine, in the parish of Grandval, in the beautiful valley of Moutier: it was then under the French Government, and now belongs to the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. He received his early education at a school in that neighbourhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.