Shortly after our departure from Ankóber, a robbery was committed in the residency; and the delinquents1 having been duly traced out by the Lebáshi, were sent in chains to Angollála, and incarcerated2 in one of the palace court-yards. The principal party proved to be a slave of the king, aided and abetted3 by a scribe, who had been for some time employed in copying manuscripts for Dr Roth; and the greater portion of the stolen property was shortly returned by the hands of the chief smith, who succeeded the disgraced page in the office of báldoraba. “Strangers have visited me from a far country,” was the message wherewith he was charged, “and whilst residing under my protection they have been plundered4 by my subjects. My name has become tarnished5. I have beaten the culprits with sticks, and shall cut off the ears of the slave Wooseni, and sell him to the merchants of Hurrur.”
Intercession, backed by presents, was successfully made with the king and queen, in behalf of the offender7, a lad of ten years of age, and he was liberated8 after severe castigation9. “God must be angry with me,” sobbed10 the juvenile11 thief, who had once before been detected beneath a bed with a pair of scissors in his possession—“God must be angry with me, for I have only twice attempted to rob, and on both occasions have I been punished.”
Among the articles stolen, which consisted chiefly of beads12, were sovereigns of William the Fourth and of Queen Victoria, and suspicions arising in the royal mind that these were not of gold, as asserted by Lieutenant15 Barker, His Majesty16 proposed testing the metal by the ordeal17 of fire. A coin of the former reign14 was accordingly thrust into the forge, and having then been immersed in water, was broken with a chisel18 by the conclave19 of smiths. “Call you this English gold?” exclaimed the Negoos: “here then is a piece of Abyssinian gold for you,”—and throwing upon the ground the brass20 foil of a sword scabbard, he laughed immoderately. A fourpenny piece was then exhibited, as a somewhat more portable and commodious21 medium of exchange than blocks of fossil salt, and the figure on the obverse immediately elicited22 the inquiry23 whether the queens of England went forth24 with their armies to battle, since Britannia was equipped with spear and shield, and was about to set a saréti in her crown like the warrior25 king of the Amhára.
(The saréti is a sprig of wild asparagus worn in Shoa as a token of victory, as will be seen presently.)
A quarrel of long standing26 between Ayto Melkoo and the commander-in-chief of the gun-men, who ranked among the foremost of the court sycophants27, had been this day brought for adjustment before the royal tribunal. The award being found in favour of the appellant, the Master of the Horse, although a great favourite, was handcuffed, and imprisoned28 in the brewery29, but after a few hours’ durance he was set at large, and his punishment commuted30 to a fine of seven hundred and fifty pieces of salt. “It is of no consequence,” he remarked somewhat unwisely, “I shall carry a mamalacha to the ‘commander,’ Captain Harris, and he will pay the amount for me.”
This boast had given occasion to malicious31 insinuations on the part of his enemies, and after dark a confidential32 message was brought to me from the palace, to the effect that Ayto Melkoo stood suspected of concealing33 certain “pleasing things” understood to have been received from my hands. But this imputation34, which, if confirmed, must have involved disgrace and confiscation35 of property, proved, fortunately for the accused, to have no foundation.
A better instance could scarcely have been adduced to illustrate36 the fleeting37 and precarious38 nature of the despot’s smiles. The mother of this tottering39 favourite, a native of Ambásel in the province of Lasta, was for many years the mistress of Hatzé Yasoo, then Emperor of Gondar, on whose demise41 she became an inmate42 of the seraglio of Asfa Woosen. Ayto Wadi, the distinguished43 Galla governor of Angollála, being thrown into prison by the latter monarch44, contrived45 to solace46 himself with the presence of the lady, and the Master of the Horse was the result of the intrigue47. No disgrace whatever attaching to his illegitimate origin, he was regarded in the light of a member of the royal family; and, being brought up in the palace, has succeeded during three several reigns13 in maintaining a position at court, which might now have been sacrificed by the clandestine48 possession of a dozen ells of English broad-cloth. The amende was, nevertheless, made to him in the course of a few days, by the addition of another village to his landed possessions at Dóba.
Such paltry49 proofs of espionage50 were invariably followed by some especial token of the royal goodwill51, ushered52 in by a goat, or a jar of honey, as a peace-offering. In this instance, after the despot had been fully6 satisfied of the groundless nature of his surmises53, I received a special invitation to accompany him the next day on a shooting excursion, a Galla ram54, the size of a well-grown calf55, having first been thrust into the tent by the bearer of the message—the dirty page Besábeh—who, as usual, composed himself to sleep in a corner after the due performance of his errand.
Saturday, being the Jewish Sabbath, brings rest from all labour, and is invariably devoted56 by the king to excursions abroad. Starting on horseback at an early hour, a gallop57 of several miles led us across the Chácha, and over the border of the Galla dependencies, to an extensive, but narrow sheet of water, where an otter40 had lately been seen. “It has hands, and nails, and fingers like a man,” observed the monarch gravely, “and a head like a black dog, and a skin like velvet58; and it builds its house at the bottom of the river, and plucks grass, and washes it in the water; and all my people thought it was the devil, and would destroy them with strong medicine. Now is this animal found in your country, and how do they call its name?”
We amused ourselves by killing59 snipe, much to the entertainment of the monarch, who displayed little talent for shooting birds on the wing, and made no secret of many very unsportsmanlike ideas. Numerous ducks and geese soon arrested his attention. Drawing up with his retinue60, and resting his weapon over the shoulder of an attendant to insure steady aim, he kept up a murderous fire with ball, shot, and slugs, during a full half hour. The weather was passing cold, and ever and anon His Majesty blew his nose betwixt his thumb and fore-finger, and wiped them on the mantle61 of the governor of Bulga, who eagerly proffered62 it for acceptance. A serious diminution63 in the numerical strength of the feathered fools resulted in no attempt to take flight or even to shift position. Incredible though it may appear, the living still paddled among the floating carcasses of their slaughtered64 comrades, as if nothing had happened, until the destroyer, weary of persecuting65 the “unclean birds,” which were not even taken out of the water, remounted and crossed the country at speed to a wide meadow, traversed by the serpentine67 Chácha.
Bald coots were here playing at hide-and-seek, whilst red-headed divers68 peeped warily69 forth for an instant, as the noisy cavalcade70 advanced. The spoonbill, and the leather-necked ibis of Egyptian veneration71, displayed their white plumage along the sedge-grown borders. The heron, the snakebird, and the redshank, waded72 through the shallow drifts; and geese, widgeon, teal, and mallard, rose whirring in the air at every step. But amidst all this inviting73 variety, the snowy egret was the object of the king’s ambition; and although, after many unsuccessful attempts, he failed in adorning74 his head with her unsullied plumes75, he retired76 perfectly77 satisfied with his skill as a rifleman, after a long stray shot had perforated the eye of an “alata furda.” This is a gigantic slate-coloured crane, with eccentric red wattles; and several pairs that were marching over the mead66 had previously78 elicited most notable displays of gunmanship on the part of Ayto Berkie and others of the royal favourites.
Abogáz Maretch, with his feudal79 train of Abitchu, joined the cortège as it passed Wona-badéra, his seat of government. The treeless expanse passed over—a type of the entire Galla territory north of Moolo-Fálada, where forest land commences—consists of wide valleys clothed with a verdant80 carpet of grass, clover, and trefoil, which, from their redundant81 luxuriance, almost impede82 progress. Every little intersecting eminence83 is completely covered with flourishing fields of barley84 and wheat, and crowned with villages fortified85 with strong stockades86; and one ancient woira excepted, whose venerable boughs87 formed in days gone by a trysting-place to the hostile pagans, not a single bush or tree was visible during the long ride.
An extensive barrier of loose stones hastily thrown up during the rebellion of Medóko, fortifies88 the south-eastern environs of Angollála; and although confessedly inferior to the great wall of China, it is calculated to offer temporary opposition89 to horsemen who are no Nimrods. Some of the lower parts were cleared by Captain Graham and myself without the slightest difficulty, and much to His Majesty’s amazement90; but every attempt on the part of the Amhára to follow our example proved a complete failure. On our return we passed through a palisaded wicket in this breastwork, which is dignified91 with the title of “the King’s Gate,” and forms the scene of the few public executions that take place. Chiefs and governors were also accorded the privilege of squeezing through with the crowned head, but followers92 and people of low degree were compelled by the stick of the doorkeeper to adopt a circuitous93 route over a belt of stony94 hills adjoining, which form a continuation of the defences.
The ascent95 to the palace was accomplished96 under a wild choral chant, laudatory97 of the monarch, which invariably announces his return from an excursion abroad. The road was lined with pilgrims clothed in yellow garments, and having each a cross of blue clay upon his forehead. They had been to perform their vows98, or redeem99 their pledges left, at the sanctuary100 of Debra Libanos (Mount Lebanon), chief seat of learning in Shoa, and the renowned101 scene of the miracles of Tekla Ha?manót, its founder102. Hard pressed by his enemies, the patron and lawgiver of Ethiopia is said to have leapt through the trunk of a venerable tree, a seam in which yet vouches103 for the truth of the legend that it spontaneously clave asunder104 at his holy bidding, but closed to foil the sacrilegious assailants who sought his life. Being athirst, he prayed unto God, whereupon the archangel Michael, who was his mediator105, caused a fountain to rise at his feet, supplied by the stream of the river Jordan. A cross which he carried in his hand had been swept away during the passage of a neighbouring torrent106, but no sooner did he curse the waters, than they were dried up, and have never since flowed above the channel!
The remains107 of the saint still cast a halo over the spot in which they he interred108, and the pool which he blessed, retains to this day the property of cleansing109 the leper, and healing every disease on either of the three days annually110 devoted to the commemoration of his birth, death, and ascension. Famous as the most holy of shrines111 throughout Southern Abyssinia, men of every rank, from the monarch to the meanest peasant, if unable to repair thither112 in person, delegate their substitute with offerings according to their wealth. Having on his way bathed in the “Segga Wadúm,” or “river of flesh and blood”—a tributary113 to the Nile, formed by the confluence114 of the Sána Robi and the Sána Boka—the pilgrim quaffs115 the waters of the mineral well, describes upon his forehead the sacred emblem116 of Christianity, and after kissing, at the adjacent church of Saint Mary, a cross which is asserted by the priesthood to have fallen from heaven, he is secure against sickness and witchcraft117. The very earth from Debra Libanos is carried away as an antidote118 to maladies, and all who meet the returning pilgrim, fall prostrate119 upon the ground, and kiss the dust from off his feet.
No sooner had His Majesty entered the palace-gate, than the sound of the imperial kettle-drum announced the presence of the herald120, and crowds collected to listen to the royal edict. Standing upon the hill-side beneath the shadow of a solitary121 stunted122 tree, which, had it a tongue, could unfold many a tale of woe123 and oppression, he thus proclaimed in a loud voice to the multitude assembled; “Hear, oh, hear! Thus saith the King. Behold124, we have foes125, and would trample126 upon their necks. Prepare ye every one for war. On the approaching festival of Abba Kinos, whoso faileth to present himself at Yeolo as a good and loyal subject, mounted, armed, and carrying provisions for twenty-one days, shall be held as a traitor127, and shall forfeit128 his property during seven years.”
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abetted
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plundered
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tarnished
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castigation
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sobbed
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juvenile
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beads
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reigns
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lieutenant
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majesty
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ordeal
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chisel
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conclave
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brass
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elicited
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inquiry
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warrior
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imprisoned
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brewery
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commuted
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malicious
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confidential
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imputation
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confiscation
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illustrate
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fleeting
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precarious
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tottering
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demise
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inmate
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distinguished
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monarch
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contrived
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solace
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intrigue
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clandestine
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paltry
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espionage
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goodwill
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surmises
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calf
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devoted
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velvet
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killing
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mead
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divers
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