Certain Abyssinian potentates2 of old are recorded by their biographers to have bestowed3 in religious charity all their worldly substance, saving the crown upon their heads. But such will never be said of Sáhela Selássie, whose endowments, although frequent, are invariably regulated by prudence4. Avarice5 stigmatises his every gift, and even adulterates the incense6 of his sacrifice. The countless7 droves of sturdy beeves which now ranged over the royal meadows were daily inspected with evident signs of satisfaction; but whilst the sleekest8 were distributed over the various pasture-lands, the leanest kine were despatched to the several churches and monasteries9, as offerings after the successful campaign.
At this season of rejoicing and festivity, the host of loathsome10 objects that habitually11 infest12 the outer court, or crawl in quest of alms around the precincts of the palace, had increased to a surprising extent, in order to share the royal bounty13. Swarms14 of itinerant15 paupers16, who bivouacked under the old Galla wall, sang psalms17 and hymns18 in the streets during the entire night; and long before dawn the clamour commenced around the tents of a throng19 of mendicants, resembling the inmates20 of a lazar-house, who, with insolent21 importunity22, reiterated23 their adjurations for relief by Georgis, Miriam, Michael, and every other saint in the Abyssinian calendar. Many petty pilferings were of course committed by this ragged24 congregation; and a deputation of the inhabitants of Angollála soon presented a petition to the throne, praying for the dismissal of the vagrants25, who had become an intolerable public nuisance.
On the festival of Tekla Ha?manót we received an invitation to witness the distribution of royal alms, which was to be followed by a beggars’ feast. The wonted inmates of the palisaded enclosure were no longer there, but their place was occupied by a shoal of even more wretched beings, just imported with a caravan26 from Guráguê. Upwards27 of six hundred slaves, of every age, from childhood to maturity28, and most of them in a state of perfect nudity, who had been snatched by the hand of avarice from the fair land of their birth, were here huddled29 together under the eye of the rover for inspection30 by the officers of the crown, preparatory to being driven to market; and the forlorn and destitute31 appearance both of old and young, stamped them objects but too well fitted for participation32 in the charity of a Christian33 monarch34.
Immediately on our arrival within the court-yard of the palace, we were conducted by the king to the royal bedchamber—a gloomy apartment, lighted chiefly by the blaze of an iron chafing-dish, and shared not only by a Moolo Fálada cat, with a large family of kittens, but by three favourite war-steeds, whose mangers were in close proximity35 to the well-screened couch. Cleanliness did not characterise the warm curtains; and although cotton cloth had been pasted round the mud walls for the better exclusion36 of the wind, an air of peculiar37 discomfort38 was present. A rickety alga in one corner, a few hassocks covered with black leather, an Ethiopic version of the Psalms of David, and a carpet consisting of withered39 rushes, were the only furniture; and the dismal40 aspect of the room was further heightened by the massive doors and treble palisades which protect the slumbers41 of the suspicious despot. The mystery of our introduction into the precincts of the harem, was presently explained by the appearance of one of the young princes of the blood royal, who had arrived in the course of the morning, and, with eyes veiled, was now led in by a withered eunuch, in order that he might receive medical assistance.
Saifa Selássie, “the sword of the Trinity,” is an extremely aristocratic and fine-looking youth, about twelve years of age, possessing the noble features of his sire, with the advantage of a very fair instead of a swarthy complexion42. Beneath a red chintz vest of Arabian manufacture, he wore a striped cotton robe, which fell in graceful43 folds from the girdle, and from the crown of the head a tassel44 of minutely-braided locks streamed to the middle of his back. “This is the light of mine eyes, and dearer to me than life itself,” exclaimed the king, withdrawing the bandage, and caressing45 the boy with the utmost fondness—“Give him the medicine that removes ophthalmia, or he, too, will be blind like his father.”
I assured His Majesty46 that no alarm need be entertained; and that although the cause was to be regretted, the day which had brought us the honour of an interview with the young prince could not but be deemed one of the highest good fortune. Much affected47 by this intimation, he laid his hand upon my arm, and replied, “We do not yet know each other as we ought, but we shall daily become better and better acquainted.”
“Whence comes this máskal?” resumed the inquisitive48 monarch, raising a Catholic cross devoutly49 to his lips, as the royal scion50 was reconducted by the shrivelled attendant towards the apartments of the queen—“to what nation does it belong?”
“It is the emblem51 of those who, in their attempts to propagate the Romish religion in Ethiopia, caused rivers of blood to flow,” was the reply. “No matter,” exclaimed His Majesty, in rebuke52 to the Mohammadan dragoman who would fain have assisted in the restoration of the paper envelope— “How dost thou dare to profane53 the holy cross? These are Christians54, and may touch it, but thou art an unbeliever.”
The votaries55 of Saint Giles had, meanwhile, been ushered56 through a private wicket, and in the adjacent enclosure offered a most revolting spectacle. The palsied, the leprous, the scrofulous, and those in the most inveterate57 stages of dropsy and elephantiasis, were mingled58 with mutilated wretches59 who had been bereft60 of hands, feet, eyes, and tongue, by the sanguinary tyrants61 of Northern Abyssinia, and who bore with them the severed62 portions, in order that their bodies might be perfect at the Day of Resurrection. The old, the halt, the deaf, the noseless, and the dumb, the living dead in every shape and form, were still streaming through the narrow door; limbless trunks were borne onwards upon the spectres of mules63, asses64, and horses, and the blind, in long Indian file, rolling their ghastly eyeballs, and touching65 each the shoulder of his sightless neighbour, groped their way towards the hum of voices, to add new horrors to the appalling66 picture.
An annual muster-roll being kept as a check, all who were ascertained67 to have been participators in the distribution of the preceding year were unceremoniously ejected by the myrmidons of the purveyor-general, who has ever the interests of the state revenues warmly at heart. The mendicants were next classed in squads68 according to their diseases, and the dwarf69 father confessor, by no means the least frightful70 object in the assembly, proceeded, in capacity of king’s almoner, to dispense71 the royal bounty. Sheep, clothes, and money, were distributed with a judicious72 hand, each donation made being carefully registered by the scribes in attendance; and half-baked bread, raw beef, and sour beer, in quantities sufficient to satisfy every monk73 and beggar in the realm, having been heaped outside the palace gate, all ate their fill, and dispersed74. Next to the merciful disposition75 of Sáhela Selássie, his munificence76 to the indigent77 may be ranked among his most prominent virtues78. Whilst the needy79 never retire empty-handed from his door, no criminal ever suffers under the barbarous mutilation, so many distressing80 monuments of which had this day shared his liberality. Blood flowing from the veins81 of a subject finds no pleasure in the eyes of the ruler of Shoa. Under his sway the use of the searing iron has become obsolete82, and the sickening sentence is unknown which in the northern states condemns83 the culprit to the wrenching84 off of hands and feet, whereof the teguments have previously85 been severed with a razor at the wrist and ankle. But widely opposed are the views of humanity entertained in different climes; and the scene that awaited our return from the banquet, although in strict accordance with retributive justice, was in appalling contrast with the more merciful fiat86 of civilised jurisprudence.
A warrior87 had been convicted upon undeniable evidence of the murder of his comrade in arms, with whom he had lived for years on terms of the closest intimacy88. During the recent campaign, he had gone with this companion into the wood, and taking advantage of the opportunity afforded by hostilities89 with the Galla, had felled the unsuspecting man to the earth with a blow of his sword. Fame, such as is only to be acquired by the slaughter90 of the foe91, prompted the dastardly outrage92; and the treacherous93 assassin who had embrued his hands in the blood of his dearest friend, now placed the green trophy94 of valour triumphantly95 on his guilty head. “Where is thy brother?” was the question that awaited his return to the camp; but, like Cain of old, he denied all knowledge of what had befallen the absentee; and it was not until the body had been discovered, that suspicion fell heavily upon himself.
Mourning relatives threw themselves in sackcloth at the imperial footstool, and cried aloud for the blood of the prisoner. Arraigned96 before the monarch, the investigation97 had been patiently conducted during the beggars feast, and the “Fétha Negést” having been duly consulted, the sentence proceeded from the royal lips—“Take him hence, and deal with him as you will.”
The last sun that was to shine upon the malefactor98 was sinking fast towards the western horizon, when, with hands bound behind his back, he was hurried from the presence for instant execution. Its rising rays had seen him seated at the door of the hut, whilst his young wife adorned99 his locks with the newly-plucked branch of asparagus, that was the record of his infamy100, but the meridian101 beam had witnessed his arrest. The relatives of the murdered, and a band of the king’s headsmen, each armed with shield and broad-headed spear, now formed a close phalanx round him as he proceeded with the stoicism of the savage102 to meet his well-merited doom103; and an infuriated mob followed, to heap taunts104 and ignominy upon his numbered moments.
Impatient of delay, the friends of the deceased were about to immolate105 their victim on the meadow close to the encampment of the Embassy; but adjured106 by the life of the monarch, they urged the culprit over the rocky mound107 adjoining the Galla wall, which was already crowded with a vast concourse of spectators, burning for the consummation of the last sentence of the law. Scarcely had the unresisting criminal passed the summit, than an eager hand stripped the garment from his shoulder, and twenty bright spears being poised108 at the moment, he turned his head to the one side, to receive a deep stab on the other. Whilst still reeling, a dozen blades were sheathed109 in his heart, and a hundred more transfixed the prostrate110 body. Swords flashed from the crooked111 scabbard—the quivering corse was mutilated in an instant, and on the next the exulting112 executioners took their way from the gore-stained ground, bearing the trophy aloft, as they howled with truly savage satisfaction the Christian chorus of death!
Mother, sisters, and wives, now flocked around the lifeless clay, rending113 the air with their piercing shrieks114.—“Alas! the brave have fallen, the spirit of the bold has fled.”
“Waiye, waiye—woe unto us, we have lost the son of our declining years”—“our brother and our husband is gone for ever!” Bared breasts were beaten and scarified, and temples were torn with the nails until the evening closed, and it was dark when the mourners ceased their shrill115 lamentation116. But the turbaned priest was not there; no absolution had been given, nor had the last sacrament been partaken; and the unhallowed remains117 of the murderer would have found a tomb in the maw of the hyena118 and the vulture, had not a charitable hand enclosed them under a cairn of stones by the highway side, where many a grass-grown mound marks the fate of the cowardly assassin, who had destroyed his brother in the wood, and whose memory is coupled with dishonour119.
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infest
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bounty
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caressing
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majesty
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affected
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