Two windy nights, during which it blew a perfect hurricane, were passed in unabated vigilance, owing to the number of ruffians lurking1 about the broken ground, the waters whereof tumble in the rainy season into the rugged2 chasm3 of Killulloo. At an early hour on the 2nd of July, a voice went through the camp, summoning the slothful camel-drivers to bestir themselves; and the incessant4 growling5 of their disturbed beasts, which arose in various keys of dissatisfaction from every part of the circle, followed by drowsy6 Danákil imprecations, and by the merciless dismantling7 of huts, to the destruction of bales and boxes, presently announced that the work of loading had duly commenced.
A march of fifteen miles over a country more level than usual, though sufficiently8 rough and stony9 withal, led through the Doomi valley to Naga Koomi. An abutting10 prong of land, under which the road wound, was adorned11 with a cluster of bee-hive-shaped huts styled Koriddra, and at its base the Balsamodendron Myrrha grew abundantly, the aromatic12 branches famishing every savage13 in the caravan14 with a new tooth-brush, to be carried in the scabbard of the creese. The encampment occupied a wide, dreary15 plain, bounded by the high mountain range of Jebel Feeóh; and although water was said to exist in the neighbourhood, it proved too distant to be accessible.
The Ras el Káfilah, at whose hands the Franks experienced about the same amount of respect and tolerance16 as a rich Jew in the days of Coeur de Lion, here imperiously demanded daily rations17 of rice and dates for the band of spearmen left as an escort by the Akil of the Hy Somauli; and on being informed that this very unreasonable18 request could not be complied with, in consequence of the tedious delays on the road having reduced the supplies so low as to be barely sufficient to last to Abyssinia, his brow became suddenly overcast19, he relapsed into his wonted ill-humour, rejected a tendered sheep with indignation, and flung out of the tent in a passion.
It rained heavily during the greater part of the night, and an early summons to rise found the party again drenched20 to the skin. The inclement21 weather had not by any means tended to restore Izhák to smiles; and his mats having proved quite insufficient22 to preserve him from full participation23 in the pleasures of the nocturnal bath, the effect upon his temper was but too manifest. “Don’t whistle, don’t whistle!” he exclaimed with a sneer24 to one of his charge, who was so amusing himself within hearing; “what are you whistling for? I have loaded the camels under a prayer from the sacred Korán, and you are doing your best to break the spell, and call up gins by your whistling. ‘La illah illallah, wo Mohammad rasúl illah;’” “there is no God but God, and Mohammad is the Prophet of God.”
“Fein teró? In the name of the three kaliphs where are you going to?” again vociferated the testy25 old man, in a terrible passion, to the same luckless individual, who, with a loaded rifle in his hand, had now left the road in pursuit of an antelope26. “‘Taal henna!’ ‘Come back, will you!’ Wullah! you’ll be getting your throat cut presently by the Buddoos, and then I shall be asked what has become of you. Can’t you keep the road? This ugly defile27 is named ‘the place of lions,’ and one of them will be eating you anon.”
Another march of fifteen miles brought the caravan to Meinha-tólli, where some hollows had been filled by the recent heavy fall of rain; but large droves of horned cattle having soiled in them, the muddy water was so strongly tainted28 as to be barely drinkable under any disguise. The country throughout bears signs of violent volcanic29 eruption30 of later times, which has covered one portion with lava31, and another with ashes and cinders32. At the outset the road led over the usual basaltic ground, strewed33 with fragments of obsidian34, but after crossing Arnoot, a deep ravine choked with refreshing35 green bushes, in which the exhausted36 beasts obtained a most welcome supply of muddy water, the stony valleys gave place to sandy plains, clothed with short yellow grass, and intersected by low ranges of hills.
One wide level expanse, termed Azóroo, stretching at the foot of the peaked mountain Aiúlloo, was pointed37 out in the distance as the scene of a signal victory gained about six years since by the Wóema over their predatory foes38 the Muda?to. The bones of upwards39 of three thousand of the combatants which now whiten the sands, have caused the desertion of the best road by the superstitious40 Danákil. With the escort were many warriors41 who had taken part in this engagement, and they described the conflict, which commenced in a night attack, to have raged, spear to spear, and shield to shield, throughout the entire of the following day, towards the close of which the “red house” was routed.
As usual, in the evening we sent for a sheep from our flock, but the Ras el Káfilah stoutly42 asserted that the whole had been transferred to himself for consumption by the escort of Hy Somauli, and although eventually compelled to relinquish43 one, he did so with an extremely bad grace. Thunder and lightning, with severe squalls and heavy rain, again closed the day—and great confusion and discomfort44 was occasioned by a sudden whirl of wind, followed by the fall upon the party, of the saturated45 tent, from the wet folds of which escape was not easily effected. A dreary night succeeded. The watery46 moon shed but a dull and flitting light over the drenched camp; and the pacing officer of the watch, after an hour’s exposure to the pitiless hurricane, calling up his relief, threw himself with aching bones upon the inundated47 bed.
“Did I not tell you what would be the consequence of your abominable48 whistling,” grumbled49 old Izhák, the first thing in the morning; “old Ali Arab is too sick to be moved, and one of my best camels has strayed, Allah knows where.” The rope with which the legs of the lost animal had been fettered50, was meanwhile rolled betwixt his hands, and sundry51 cabalistic words having been muttered whilst the Devil was dislodged by the process of spitting upon the cord at the termination of each spell, it was finally delivered over to the Dankáli about to be sent on the quest, and he presently returned successful.
Ahmed Mohammad, the messenger who had been despatched from Tajúra with an Arabic letter for Sáhela Selássie, requesting assistance on the road, returned during this delay. He had passed the night in a Bedouin encampment, the proximity52 of which had been betrayed by the barking of dogs at each discharge of the musket53 when the sentinel was relieved. The courier brought advices to the Embassy, and native letters for Izhák and Mohammad Ali. Owing to the jealousy54 of the frontier officers of Efát, he had been subjected to many days of needless detention55, during which the king had led a distant military expedition; and although compliments and assurances of welcome were not wanting, they were coupled with the unsatisfactory intelligence that the party must trust entirely56 to its own resources, as in the absence of His Majesty57, no assistance whatever could be rendered.
The rainy season having now fairly set in, it was believed that the pools on the upper road would furnish a sufficient supply of water, and the course was accordingly shaped towards it. Emerging upon the extensive plain of Merihán, bounded to the westward58 by the lofty peaked range of Feéoh, the route skirted the Bundoora hills, thickly clothed with grass, and varying in height from six hundred to a thousand feet. Wáyess, the chief of the Wóema, formerly59 held his head-quarters in this neighbourhood, at Haga?o-dera-dubba; but the Eesah Somauli making frequent inroads, and at last sweeping60 off all the cattle of the tribe, it was abandoned. The hill ranges on both sides have sent lava streams almost to the middle of the plain, but generally it is covered with a fine light-coloured soil, strewn with volcanic ashes and small fragments of obsidian—the grass, improved by the recent showers, having partially61 acquired a greenish tint62. A singular detached hill composed of fresh-water limestone63, contained a few impressions of small spiral shells, whilst the surrounding rocks exhibit the usual cellular64 basalt.
No one could conceive that the rugged arid65 wastes whereon he trod, had ever in themselves been either productive or populous66. Saving the labours of the termites67, exhibited in endless mounds68 of vast dimensions, no monument of industry redeems69 the inhospitable landscape; yet these measureless plains, no less than the barren mountain ranges so lately traversed, did formerly, as now they might, afford hordes70 of hardy71 soldiers, that under a bold leader, such as the mighty72 Graan, who in the sixteenth century unfurled the banner of the impostor, and at the head of a countless73 army overran and nearly destroyed the Ethiopic empire, were admirably adapted to possess themselves of the more fertile plains and provinces adjoining. Whatever may have been the virtues74 and endowments of these olden warriors, their posterity75, like the dwellings76 they inhabit, are sufficiently rude and degenerate77.
Wady Bundoora, clothed in a thicket78 of verdant79 bushes, had been selected as the halting ground, and its appearance promised a copious80 supply of water; but every pool proved dry, and the march was therefore continued to Madéra-dubba—a second and similar ravine, which was confidently expected to afford the desired element. Disappointment was however again in store, and the rain not having extended thus far, the usual reservoirs were referred to in vain. Worse than all, information was here received that not a drop of water would be found at the next station; whilst, owing to the wear and tear of skins, added to the too confident anticipations81 indulged, barely a sufficient supply for even one day accompanied the káfilah.
It had been determined82 under these untoward83 circumstances, to move on at midnight; but after an insufferably hot day, rain again interfered84. Unfortunately it did not fall in sufficient quantities to be of much utility; a few pints85 caught in tarpaulins86, which, with all available utensils87, were placed for the reception of the precious fluid, proving very inadequate88 to the wants of the thirsty party. At 3 a.m. the caravan advanced down the valley, with cool refreshing weather, and a fine moon shining brightly overhead. From the summit of a tumulus of black lava, marking the point where the undulations of the Bundoora hills trend towards the mountains of the Ittoo Galla, an extensive view was obtained with the dawning day, over a country bearing the most extraordinary volcanic character—huge craters90 on the one hand towering to the clouds, whilst on the other sank the wide valley of Kordeité, through which lay the high road to the desolate91 plains of Errur.
A few pools of muddy rain-water by the wayside were eagerly drained by the sinking cattle, but a deep ravine, bordered with green trees and bushes, was explored to no purpose; and after crossing the fine open plain of Eyrolúf, abounding92 in gazelles and swine, the road led round the base of a remarkable93 cone94, styled Jebel Hélmund, which had long been in view. Isolated95, and four hundred feet in height, with a crater89 opening to the north-eastward, which would seem at no very remote period to have discontinued its eruption, it is surrounded by a broad belt of lava, some three miles in diameter. This has formed towards the plain a black scarped wall, rising from fifteen to twenty feet, of which the wooded crevices96 teemed97 with quail98, partridges, and guinea-fowl, and were said to be so many great dens99 of lions.
The sultry afternoon was already far advanced, when the weary eye was refreshed by a glimpse of the verdant plain of Sultélli, a perfectly100 level expanse, so ingeniously overgrown with pale green vegetation as to furnish an exact representation of a wide lake covered with floating duckweed, around which numerous camels were busily browsing101 on the rank herbage. During the greater part of the year, this plain presents one vast and delightful102 sheet of water; but the fairy form of the light-footed gazelle was presently seen bounding over the delusive103 surface, and although clothed throughout with the most tantalising verdure, it yet proved perfectly dry. The camels were milch females, capable of subsisting104 for days, and even for weeks together, without drinking, whilst their milk serves to quench105 the thirst of their unwashed Bedouin attendants. Beedur, the chief of a section of the Débeni, who resides in this spot during the rainy season, had long since decamped with his clan106 to more distant pastures.
Every hollow in the rich black soil abounding with shells, was vainly explored; and after a seventeen mile march, the party, weary and thirsty, were fain to encamp on the opposite side, and giving up the search as fruitless, to rest satisfied with the nauseous contents of water-skins filled at the putrid107 pools of Meinha-tólli—a second, and if possible, a worse edition of the impurities108 brewed109 at the Salt Lake. Both amongst men and cattle the utmost distress110 prevailed. A suffocating111 blast blew incessantly112, heat the most intense was reflected from the adjacent black rocks; and nearly all of the horses and mules113 were so completely exhausted that there appeared no prospect114 of dragging them other sixteen miles to the nearest reservoir.
But towards midnight the beneficent flood-gates of Heaven were providentially opened, and a violent storm bursting over the camp, in less than half an hour filled every ravine and hollow to overflowing115, and afforded a plentiful116 and truly seasonable, although transient, supply. Tearing up their pickets117 from the saturated soil, the dying animals thrust into the turbid118 stream that rolled through the encampment their hot noses, which for two entire days and nights had been strangers to moisture, and filled their sunken flanks almost to bursting. Cackling troops of guinea-fowl flocked to the pools from the adjacent heights. Embankments were thrown up, and wells excavated119; and European, Danákil, and camp-follower—Christian, Moslem120, and Hindoo—all drenched to the skin, falling together upon their knees in the posture121 of thanksgiving, sucked down the first copious draught122 of palatable123 water that had been enjoyed since leaving Fiáloo.
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growling
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drowsy
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dismantling
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savage
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caravan
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inclement
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relinquish
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