<P> Alvares wrote: </P> <P> The custome is that all the male child of the Kings, except the Heires, as soone as they be brought up, they send them presendly to a very great Rock, which stands in the province of Amara, and there they pass all their life, and never come out from thence, except the King which reignith departeth their life without Heires . </P> <P> Mount Amara also appears in Milton's Paradise Lost: </P> <P> Near where Abessian Kings their issue Guard, Mount Amara, though this by some suppos'd True Paradise under the Ethiop line . </P>

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