Although Warelissán proved nearly seventeen hundred feet above the level of the blue water, a suffocating1 south-westerly wind, which blew throughout the tedious day, rendered the heat more awfully2 oppressive than at any preceding station. The camp, unsheltered, occupied a naked tract3 of table-land, some six miles in circumference4, on the shoulder of Jebel Goodah—its barren surface strewed5 with shining lava6, and bleached7 animal bones; sickly acacias of most puny8 growth, sparingly invested with sun-burnt leaves, here and there struggling through the fissures9, as if to prove the utter sterility10 of the soil; whilst total absence of water, and towering whirlwinds of dust, sand, and pebbles11, raised by the furnace-like puffs12 that came stealing over the desert landscape, completed the discomfiture13 both of man and beast.
During the dead of night, when restless unrefreshing slumbers14 on the heated ground had hushed the camp in all its quarters, the elders, in great consternation15, brought a report that the Bedouin war-hawks, who nestle in the lap of the adjacent wild mountains, were collecting in the neighbourhood with the design of making a sudden swoop16 upon the káfilah, for which reason the European escort must be prepared for battle, and muskets17 be discharged forthwith, to intimidate18 the lurking19 foe20. They were informed, in reply, that all slept upon their arms, and were in readiness; but Mohammad Ali came shortly afterwards to announce that matters had been amicably21 adjusted with the aid of a few ells of blue cloth; and under the care of a double sentry22, the party slept on without further disturbance23 until two in the morning, prior to which hour, the moon, now on her wane24, had not attained25 sufficient altitude to render advance practicable.
The aid of her pale beams was indispensable, in consequence of the existence of the yawning pass of Rah Eesah, not one hundred yards distant from the encampment just abandoned, but till now unperceived. It derives26 its appellation27, as “the road of the Eesahs,” from the fact of this being the path usually chosen by that hostile portion of the Somauli nation, on the occasions of their frequent forays into the country of the Danákil, with whom, singularly enough, an outward understanding subsists28. Its depths have proved the arena29 of many a sanguinary contest, and are said, after each downpouring of the heavens, to become totally impassable, until again cleared of the huge blocks of stone, the detritus30 from the scarped cliffs, which so choke the bed of the chasm31, as to impede32 all progress. The labour of removing these, secures certain immunities33 to the wild pioneers, who levy34 a toll35 upon every passing caravan36, and who in this instance were propitiated37, on application, by the division of a bale of blue cotton calico, a manufacture here esteemed38 beyond all price.
A deep zig-zagged rent in the plateaux, produced originally by some grand convulsion of nature, and for ages the channel of escape to the sea of the gathered waters from Jebel Goodah, winds like a mythological39 dragon through the bowels40 of the earth, upwards41 of three miles to the southward. Masses of basalt of a dark burnt brown colour, are piled perpendicularly42 on either side, like the solid walls of the impregnable fortresses43 reared by the Cyclops of old; and rising from a very narrow channel, strewed with blocks of stone, and huge fallen fragments of rock, tower overhead to the height of five or six hundred feet. One perilous44 path affords barely sufficient width for a camel’s tread, and with a descensus of one foot and a half in every three, leads twisting away into the gloomy depths below, dedicated45 to the son of Chaos46 and Darkness, and now plunged47 in total obscurity.
It was a bright and cloudless night, and the scenery, as viewed by the uncertain moonlight, cast at intervals48 in the windings49 of the road upon the glittering spear-blades of the warriors50, was wild and terrific. The frowning basaltic cliffs, not three hundred yards from summit to summit, flung an impenetrable gloom over the greater portion of the frightful51 chasm, until, as the moon rose higher in the clear vault52 of heaven, she shone full upon huge shadowy masses, and gradually revealed the now dry bed, which in the rainy season must often-times become a brief but impetuous torrent53.
No sound was heard save the voice of the camel-driver, coaxing54 his stumbling beasts to proceed by the most endearing expressions. In parts where the passage seemed completely choked, the stepping from stone to stone, accomplished55 with infinite difficulty, was followed by a drop leap, which must have shaken every bone. The gun was twice shifted to the back of a spare camel, provided for the purpose; and how the heavily-laden, the fall of one of which would have obstructed56 the way to those that followed, kept their feet, is indeed subject of profound astonishment57. All did come safely through, however, notwithstanding the appearance of sundry58 wild Bedouins, whose weapons and matted locks gleamed in the moonbeam, as their stealthy figures flitted in thin tracery from crag to crag. A dozen resolute59 spirits might have successfully opposed the united party; but these hornets of the mountains, offering no molestation60, contented61 themselves with reconnoitring the van and rear-guards from heights inaccessible62 through their natural asperity63, until the twilight64 warned them to retire to their dens65 and hiding places; and ere the sun shone against the summits of the broken cliffs, the straggling caravan had emerged in safety from this dark descent to Eblis.
Goobut el Kharáb, with the singular sugar-loaf islet of Good Ali, shortly opened to view for the last time, across black sheets of lava, hardened in their course to the sea, and already rotten near the water’s edge. Many years have not elapsed since the Eesah made their latest foray to the north of the pass, which has since borne their name; and sweeping66 off immense booty in cattle, halted on their return at Eyroladába, above the head of the bay. Under cover of the pitchy darkness, five hundred Danákil warriors, passing silently through the gloomy defile67, fell suddenly in the dead of night upon the marauders, when, in addition to the multitude slain68 by the spear and creese, numbers in the panic created by the surprise, leapt in their flight over the steep lava cliffs, and perished in the deep waters of the briny69 basin.
The schooner70, although riding safely at anchor near the western extremity71, was altogether concealed72 by precipitous walls that towered above her raking masts, and kept the party in uncertainty73 of her arrival. Crossing the lone74 valley of Marmoríso, a remnant of volcanic75 action, rent and seamed with gaping76 fissures, the road turned over a large basaltic cone77, which had brought fearful devastation78 upon the whole surrounding country, and here one solitary79 gazelle browsed80 on stubble-like vegetation scorched81 to a uniform brown. Skirting the base of a barren range, covered with heaps of lava blocks, and its foot ornamented82 with many artificial piles, marking deeds of blood, the lofty conical peak of Jebel Seeáro rose presently to sight, and not long afterwards the far-famed Lake Assál, surrounded by dancing mirage83, was seen sparkling at its base.
The first glimpse of the strange phenomenon, although curious, was far from pleasing. An elliptical basin, seven miles in its transverse axis84, half filled with smooth water of the deepest caerulean blue, and half with a solid sheet of glittering snow-white salt, the offspring of evaporation—girded on three sides by huge hot-looking mountains, which dip their bases into the very bowl, and on the fourth by crude half-formed rocks of lava, broken and divided by the most unintelligible85 chasms,—it presented the appearance of a spoiled, or at least of a very unfinished piece of work. Bereft86 alike of vegetation and of animal life, the appearance of the wilderness87 of land and stagnant88 water, over which a gloomy silence prevailed, and which seemed a temple for ages consecrated89 to drought, desolation, and sterility, is calculated to depress the spirit of every beholder90. No sound broke on the ear; not a ripple91 played upon the water; the molten surface of the lake, like burnished92 steel, lay unruffled by a breeze; the fierce sky was without a cloud, and the angry sun, like a ball of metal at a white heat, rode triumphant93 in a full blaze of noontide refulgence94, which in sickening glare was darted95 back on the straining vision of the fainting wayfarer96, by the hot sulphury mountains that encircled the still, hollow, basin. A white foam97 on the shelving shore of the dense98 water, did contrive99 for a brief moment to deceive the eye with an appearance of motion and fluidity; but the spot, on more attentive100 observation, ever remained unchanged—a crystallised efflorescence.
As the tedious road wound on over basalt, basaltic lava, and amygdaloid, the sun, waxing momentarily more intensely powerful, was reflected with destructive and stifling101 fervour from slates102 of snow-white sea-limestone103 borne on their tops. Still elevated far above the level of the ocean, a number of fossil shells, of species now extinct, were discovered; a deep cleft104 by the wayside, presenting the unequivocal appearance of the lower crater105 of a volcano, situated106 on the high basaltic range above, whence the lava stream had been disgorged through apertures107 burst in the rocks, but which had re-closed after the violence of the eruption108 had subsided109.
Dafári, a wild broken chasm at some distance from the road, usually contains abundance of rain-water in its rocky pool, but having already been long drained to the dregs, it offered no temptation to halt. Another most severe and trying declivity110 had therefore to be overcome, ere the long and sultry march was at an end. It descended111 by craggy precipices112 many hundred feet below the level of the sea, to the small close sandy plain of Mooya, on the borders of the Lake—a positive Jehannam, where the gallant113 captain of the “Constance” (Lieutenant Wilmot Christopher, I N) had already been some hours ensconced under the leafless branches of one poor scrubby thorn, which afforded the only screen against the stifling blast of the sirocco, and the merciless rays of the refulgent114 orb115 overhead.
Adyli, a deep mysterious cavern116 at the further extremity of the plain, is believed by the credulous117 to be the shaft118 leading to a subterranean119 gallery which extends to the head of Goobut el Kharáb. Déeni, most expert and systematic120 of liars121, even went so far as to assert that he had seen through it the waters of the bay, although he admitted it to be the abode122 of “gins and efreets,” whose voices are heard throughout the night, and who carry off the unwary traveller to devour123 him without remorse124. The latest instance on record was of one Shehém, who was compelled by the weariness of his camel to fall behind the caravan, and, when sought by his comrades, was nowhere to be found, notwithstanding that his spear and shield had remained untouched. No tidings of the missing man having been obtained to the present hour, he is believed by his disconsolate125 friends to have furnished a meal to the gins in Adyli; but it seems not improbable that some better clue to his fate might be afforded by the Adrúsi, an outcast clan126 of the Débeni, acknowledging no chief, though recognising in some respects the authority of the Sultán of Tajúra, and who wander over the country for evil, from Sagállo to the Great Salt Lake.
Foul-mouthed vampires127 and ghouls were alone wanting to complete the horrors of this accursed spot, which, from its desolate128 position, might have been believed the last stage in the habitable world. A close mephitic stench, impeding129 respiration130, arose from the saline exhalations of the stagnant lake. A frightful glare from the white salt and limestone hillocks threatened destruction to the vision; and a sickening heaviness in the loaded atmosphere, was enhanced rather than alleviated131 by the fiery132 breath of the parching133 north-westerly wind, which blew without any intermission during the entire day. The air was inflamed134, the sky sparkled, and columns of burning sand, which at quick intervals towered high into the dazzling atmosphere, became so illumined as to appear like tall pillars of fire. Crowds of horses, mules135, and fetid camels, tormented136 to madness by the dire137 persecutions of the poisonous gad-fly, flocked recklessly with an instinctive138 dread139 of the climate, to share the only bush; and obstinately140 disputing with their heels the slender shelter it afforded, compelled several of the party to seek refuge in noisome141 caves formed along the foot of the range by fallen masses of volcanic rock, which had become heated to a temperature seven times in excess of a potter’s kiln142, and fairly baked up the marrow143 in the bones. Verily! it was “an evil place,” that lake of salt: it was “no place of seed, nor of figs144, nor yet of vines; no, nor even of pomegranates; neither was there any water to drink.”
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circumference
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bleached
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lurking
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chaos
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warriors
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