Lobo

Lobo, JERONIMO, a Jesuit missionary, born at Lisbon in 1593, went out to India in 1621, but travelled back to Abyssinia in 1625, and was for nearly ten years superintendent of missions in Tigre. He died at Lisbon in 1678. From Lobo's Portuguese MS. account of his travels in Abyssinia the Abbé Legrand published a French translation in 1728, and of this again Dr Johnson produced an abridged English version in 1735—his first work. Sir Peter Wyche also translated into English parts of Lobo's MS. in 1669.