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Goʹjam

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A province of Abyssinia (Africa). Captain Speke traced it to Lake Victoria Nyanza, near the Mountains of the Moon (1861).

“The swelling Nile.


From his two springs in Gojam’s sunny realm,

Pure-welling out.”


 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Godfrey’s Cordial
Godiva (Lady)
Godless Florin (The)
Godliness
Godmer
Goël
Goemot or Goëmagot
Gog and Magog
Goggles
Gogmagog Hill (The)
Gojam
Golconda
Gold
Gold
Gold Purse of Spain
Golden
Golden Age
Golden Apple
Golden Ass
Golden Ball (The)
Golden Bay