Gradually ascending3 through a hilly and well-wooded country, still a positive garden of the wild aloe, the road now led through a succession of deep glades4, which opened in turn upon verdant5 mountain scenery; and at on early hour, after the first signs of cultivation6 had been afforded in the truly grateful sight of ploughs turning up the soil, the tents were erected7 on the open plain of Dinómali.
At this, the frontier station of Argóbba, are levied8 the royal import duties of ten per cent; and a scene of noise, bustle9, and confusion did not fail to ensue, such as is wont10 to attend the arrival of every caravan11. In his character of collector-general of customs, the pompous12 Wulásma took seat below a tree in the centre, whilst his myrmidons, beleaguering13 every load the moment it was removed from the camel, prevented all access on the part of the owner until scrutinising search had been instituted by the secretary for the salt trade, and the imperial scribes had, by a tedious process denominated writing, completed an inventory15 of contents. From time immemorial it had been the law of the realm to regard the despotic ruler as the proprietor16 of every moveable in the land; and it was not without many looks of incredulity and amazement17 that the custom-house officers now received the astounding18 intimation that they would touch the baggage of the British Embassy at their peril19.
Thus for the first time thwarted20 in their prerogative21 of forcing open boxes, and inspecting the wares22 they contained, Débtera Tekla Zion and his brother scribes were tempted23 to attribute the opposition24 offered to the truth of a vague report already current, that a foreign king was being smuggled25 into Abyssinia for evil. And they were still standing26 in mute astonishment27, with idle ink-horns dangling28 from their hands, lost in conjecture29 of the probable consequences involved by the unprecedented30 interference exercised, when a message was received expressive32 of the compliments and best wishes of Sáhela Selássie. Still at a distance from Ankóber, His Majesty33 had resolved, in order to hasten the interview with his guests, to proceed at once to the capital, whither the English were invited to repair with all possible expedition.
The arrival of this unlooked-for salutation, which was coupled with an affirmative answer to a request previously34 made, that the presents in charge of the Embassy might neither be interfered35 with, nor subjected to the usual custom-house scrutiny36 when crossing the frontier, had the effect of bringing to his senses the overbearing Wulásma; and, in accordance with the king’s instructions, oxen, sheep, bread, beer, and hydromel were liberally supplied without another moment’s demur37. But a fresh source of delay and annoyance38 forthwith arose on the part of the Ras el Káfilah, whose latent object being to transfer the charge of Danákil caravans39 from the hands of the corpulent and now civil gaoler to those of Wulásma Sule?man Moosa, made the acceptance of supplies at the hand of the former a pretext40 for throwing up his functions and setting out to Ankóber, exclaiming as he mounted his mule41 in a towering passion, for the avowed42 purpose of laying his complaint at the footstool of the throne, “Am not I the brother of the Sultán of Tajúra?”
But the furious elder had not proceeded far on his adventurous43 journey, ere his ears were saluted45 by repeated discharges of musketry, accompanied by martial46 music and a solemn vocal47 chorus. These served to announce the advent44 of Ayto Kátama, commander-in-chief of the imperial body-guard, with the escort of honour consisting of three hundred matchlock-men, who were to have received the Embassy on the banks of the Háwash. The arrival of this important personage, whose schoolboyish sallies ill became his years and high military functions, was speedily followed by the appearance of Ayto Wolda Hána, governor of Ankóber, and first nobleman in the realm, also fraught48 with congratulations. His presence had the effect of recalling the irritated Ras to a sense of duty; and no efficient carriage having been provided by the Abogáz, it was finally arranged, after many difficulties, objections, and disputes, that the baggage should be transported to Fárri, other two miles in advance, where Mohammadan porters could be obtained in sufficient numbers to convey it to its final destination—the mountains in every part being deemed quite inaccessible49 to the camel.
Although the distance from Fárri did not exceed a mile, the lateness of the hour at which this accommodation was vouchsafed50, rendered it impossible to carry the measure into effect until the following day. The governor of Ankóber meanwhile politely insisted upon charging himself with the baggage, his officious zeal51 extending even to the effects of private individuals, whereby much inconvenience was entailed52. But notwithstanding his garrulous53 protestations, and the presence of so large a body of the royal troops, everything was finally left unprotected; and, before his negligence54 was discovered, four of the remaining mules55 had been stolen from their pickets56 by the marauders who infest57 the neighbourhood.
Loaded for the thirty-fifth and last time with the baggage of the British Embassy, the caravan, escorted by the detachment of Ayto Kátama, with flutes58 playing and muskets59 echoing, and the heads of the warriors60 decorated with white plumes61, in earnest of their bold exploits during the late expedition, advanced on the afternoon of the 16th of July, to Fárri, the frontier town of the kingdom of Efát. Clusters of conical-roofed houses, covering the sloping sides of twin hills which form a gorge62 wherein the royal dues are deposited, here presented the first permanent habitations that had greeted the eye since leaving the sea-coast; rude and ungainly, but right welcome signs of transition from depopulated wastes to the abodes63 of man.
As well from the steepness of the rugged64 mountains of Abyssinia, which towered overhead, as from the pinching climate of their wintry summits, the camel becomes useless as a beast of burthen; and none being ever taken beyond the frontier, many of the Wulásma’s retinue65 now gazed at the ungainly quadrupeds for the first time. The “ship of the desert” has been created for the especial benefit of sultry, arid66, and waterless plains, such as those now crossed, where no other domesticated67 animal could long exist, but where, even under the most scorching68 radiation of heat, when the skin peels from the parched69 lips of the pilgrim, and the horizon beams as with the fires of an hundred volcanoes, the soft lustrous70 eye of the patient dromedary loses not a jot71 of its wonted brilliancy. But numbers had been dreadfully wrung72 during the tedious march, those especially which carried tent-poles and other unmanageable burdens; and amongst others, two of the finest had sung under the weight of the galloper-gun. No sooner was the load now removed, than a swarm73 of parasitic74 birds, with brilliant golden eyes, here for the first time seen, swarmed75 around the galled76 part, and having dived into the gaping77 wounds, without causing perceptible annoyance to the sufferer, became so engrossed78 in the removal of ticks and maggots with their crimson79 bills, that several were made prisoner with the hand.
Boxes and bales as they arrived were deposited within a stone enclosure in the centre of the area; and the bloated Wulásma, again seated in regal dignity beneath an ancient acacia, which threw its slender shade over the heterogeneous80 pile, placing Ayto Wolda Hána upon his right hand, with the aid of the royal scribes and their ink-horns commenced an inventory de novo. Vigorous attempts to force open the cases were once more resisted, with complete success. Earnest expostulations tried in turn by the Moslem81 and the Christian82, were alike unheeded; and amid noise, clamour, and confusion, such as could ill be described, the inquisitive83 functionaries84 were fain, as before, to content themselves with a list of packages in the gross. Rough conjectural85 estimates of the number of muskets contained in each matted roll were however clandestinely86 formed, by dint87 of squeezing and pinching; and these too were committed to writing, as though fears were entertained lest the king might now, in his own dominions, be defrauded88 of a portion of the investment transported in safety thither89 from a distant land.
Hajji Mohammad, a respectable old slave-dealer in the suite90 of the Abogáz, had during this interim91 obligingly undertaken to solve certain puzzling geographical92 questions proposed, and with a staff was methodically tracing on the sand, for the edification of his European audience, the position of the Háwash in its upper course. An insane old Hássóba, long resident at Fárri, whose head laboured under the effect of sundry93 wounds received in youth, had unfortunately become violently excited by too copious94 libations in honour of the safe arrival of his clansmen. To the annoyance of every one, he had been bawling96 incessantly97 for many hours, and he presently staggered up to ascertain99 if he could throw light upon the subject under discussion.
“What do you know about the Háwash?” he exclaimed, in a violent passion, as the name of the lone100 river fell upon his ear—“Pray where did you learn about the Háwash, or the Ittoo, or the Aroosi?”—and suiting the action to the word, his cudgel rattled101 heavily over the crown of the unoffending pilgrim to the shrine102 of the Prophet. Nettled103 at this unprovoked assault, the venerable man retorted with interest—blows pattered thick and fast, a crowd collected, creeses were drawn104, and the friends of the respective parties felt themselves bound to interfere31. The belligerent105 Hajji was held to prevent his committing murder; and the Adel geographer106, as he walked reluctantly away, under a shower of stones, turning frequently to breathe defiance107 to the object of his ire, repeated with a sneer108, “Here is the Háwash indeed: what the devil does that old donkey know about the Háwash?”
Meanwhile arrived a special messenger, bearing reiterated109 compliments from the Negoos, with a horse and a mule from the royal stud, attired110 in the peculiar111 trappings and colours which in Shoa pertain112 solely113 to Majesty. The bridles114 and breastplates glittered with studs and bosses of polished metal; gay embroidery115 in coloured worsted covered the saddle-cloth of the mule, and a collection of silver chains, jingles116, and bells, encircled her neck. At sight hereof women and girls enveloped117 in blood-red shifts, who had thronged118 to the busy scene to stare at the white strangers, at once burst into a loud scream of acclamation. A group of hooded119 widows, occupying an adjacent public asylum120, thrust their fingers into their ears, and joined in the clamour. Escort and camel-drivers, now at their journey’s end, had placed no bounds to their hilarity121. A fat ox that had been promised was turned loose among the spectators—pursued by fifty savages122 with gleaming creeses—and ham-strung by a dexterous123 blow, which threw it bellowing124 to the earth in the height of its mad career. The rival clans95 of lean curs, that are respectively quartered on the dung-heaps of the twin hills, and suffer no intrusion into each other’s domains125, rushed to the neutral ground, and forthwith commenced an indiscriminate engagement over the garbage; and whilst Débtera Tekla Zion, still counting and recounting, amended126 his long list with untiring perseverance127, crowds of porters and lounging visitors added the mite128 of their united voices to the din, tumult129, and intolerable uproar130 which continued until close of day.
Predatory incursions of the Galla upon the Argóbba frontier are frequent, and not many weeks had passed away since six of the king’s liege subjects were murdered within the precincts of the encamping ground. In defiance of tempestuous131 weather, two European soldiers and an officer had been on guard without shelter during every night of the long and tedious march, and the sergeant132 of the escort had every hour personally relieved the sentries133: but the exposed position of the baggage, added to the evil character borne by the spot, and the experience already gained at Dinómali, still precluded134 the discontinuance of watch and ward135, whereof all were heartily136 weary.
In the dead of night an alarm caused all to spring from their couches on the hard ground, and to stand prepared for the reception of an unseen foe137, whose approach was announced by the blast of some hideous138 war-horn. Halters had been broken, and mules and horses were charging over the tent ropes, nor was the real cause of the confusion discovered for some minutes. A thirsty dog, unacquainted with the artifice139 resorted to by the fox that needed water, had recklessly thrust his mangy head so deep into an earthen jar that he was unable to withdraw it, and rushing he knew not whither, was giving vent14 through his strange proboscis140 to fearful hollow groans141, which might well have instilled142 terror into the breast of the superstitious143, and did not fail to elicit144 ceaseless howls from the canine145 occupants of the dunghill.
The delinquent146 was shot, and order being at length restored, those who were entitled to slumber147 again proceeded to avail themselves of the privilege. After pacing his beat some hours beyond the wonted period of relief, the sentinel who mounted at midnight hailed the officer on duty. Receiving no reply to the challenge, he approached the door of the tent, and there, sad to relate, the first breach148 of discipline was detected on the part of the guardian149 of the camp, who, worn out by incessant98 vigils, was on this, his last watch, lying fast asleep upon his post, with a pistol in each hand!
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