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The Highlands of Æthiopia. Volume 1 The highlands of Æthiopia. Volume 1 http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.CH.DOCUMENT.sip100042 Use of the Aluka digital library is subject to Aluka’s Terms and Conditions, available at http://www.aluka.org/page/about/termsConditions.jsp. By using Aluka, you agree that you have read and will abide by the Terms and Conditions. Among other things, the Terms and Conditions provide that the content in the Aluka digital library is only for personal, non-commercial use by authorized users of Aluka in connection with research, scholarship, and education. The content in the Aluka digital library is subject to copyright, with the exception of certain governmental works and very old materials that may be in the public domain under applicable law. Permission must be sought from Aluka and/or the applicable copyright holder in connection with any duplication or distribution of these materials where required by applicable law. Aluka is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to creating and preserving a digital archive of materials about and from the developing world. For more information about Aluka, please see http://www.aluka.org The highlands of Æthiopia. Volume 1 Author/Creator Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir Date 1844 Resource type Books Language English Subject Coverage (spatial) Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, Axum;Lalibela Source Smithsonian Institution Libraries, DT377 .H317 1844/963 H317h.2 Description Chapter I: Departure of the British Embassy from the shores of India. Chap. II: Disembarkation at Cape Aden. Chap. III: A stroll through the infant Metropolis of British Arabia. Chap. IV: The Gibraltar of the East. Chap. V: Voyage across the Gulf of Arabia. Chap. VI: Cast anchor at Tajura on the African coast. Chap. VII: Reception of the Embassy by the Sultan of the seaport, and return visit to His Highness. Chap. VIII: Tajura, " The city of the Slave Merchant". Chap. IX: Foretaste of Danakil Knavery. Chap. X: Long adieu to the unprincipled Sultan. Chap. XI: Iniquitous proceedings at Ambabo, and understanding with the Ras el Kafilah. Chap. XII: Dullool The Ras unpleasantly reminded of his pledge Sagallo and Warelissan. Chap. XIII: Gloomy passage of Rah Eesah, the Descensus ad Inferos. Chap. XIV: Fearful sufferings in the Pandemonium of Bahr Assal. Chap. XV: Dismal night march along the inhospitable shores of the Great Salt Lake. Chap. XVI: Afflicting catastrophe at Goongoonteh. Chap. XVII: The stricken follower dies. Cairns of the murdered. Allooli and Bedi Kurroof. Chap. XVIII: Territories of the Danakil Debeni. Suggadera, Murrah, Duddee, and Gobaad. Chap. XIX: Interview with the Ogre. Chap. XX: Showing how the Ogre acquitted himself at Gootabella. Chap. XXI: Sankul and Suggagedan. Dawaylaka and Amadoo in the limits of the Galeyla Mudaito. Chap. XXII: Red House of Mudaito. Chronicle of the conquest of Aussa. Chap. XXIII: Arab March over the Tehama. Chap. XXIV: Massacre of the five hundred. Chap. http://www.aluka.org XXV: Fialoo, a den of thieves in the Woema Territories. Barurudda and Killulloo. Chap. XXVI: Ominous debates and intolerable delays at the Half way Stage. Chap. XXVII: Persecutions of the gathered Clans. Parting interview with the avaricious Chieftains. Chap. XXVIII: Renewal of debates by Ibrahim Shehem Abli, surnamed "The Devil." Final escape to Waramilli. Chap. XXIX: Naga Koomi. Meinha Tolli. Madera Dubba, and Sultelli. Chap. XXX: Field of extinct Volcanoes. Oasis of Your Erain Maroo. Chap. XXXI: Menace of the Dar Mudaito. Moolu Zughir, and Burdudda. Chap. XXXII: A tale of the plains of Errur. Chap. XXXIII: The one eyed family. Hao, and the first glimpse of the Hawash. Chap. XXXIV: Passage of the Hawash. Chap. XXXV: Wady Azboti. Arrival of a spy from the Abyssinian Mountains. Chap. XXXVI: Valley of Kokai. Hostilities of Wulasma Mohammad. Chap. XXXVII: Dinomali. Greetings from the Negoos at Farri, on the frontier of his dominions. Chap. XXXVIII: A parting tribute of Gratitude inscribed to the People of Adel. Chap. XXXIX: The gentle Adaiel, and Farewell to them. Chap. XL: Ascent of the Abyssinian Alps. Chap. XLI: Probation at Alio Amba. Chap. XLII: The weekly market. Chap. XLIII: The principality of Hurrur. Chap. XLIV: Escape from the market town. Chap. XLV: Presentation at court. Format extent 487 pages (length/size) http://www.aluka.org/action/showMetadata?doi=10.5555/AL.CH.DOCUMENT.sip100042 http://www.aluka.org THE HIGHLANDS OF IETHJOPIA DESCRIBED, DURING EIGHTEEN MONTHS' RESIDENCE OF AT THE CHRISTIAN COURT OF SHOA. 'AW ' A 'v Al~lowas p~ercictaft Tq,d8' ?4z/Tav, A1etowag, T401 BIX6& Wea'rat, 'iXaTOL &iipg V, 09' Af'V &bo'oje'voV 'TrEPIoz'OS, ol W' &vptdipos, 'AvqTid~,v -at4priz .e IKal apVel ) kcaT61AG7S. 'OATIZET'A, A. 22. et seq. NOTICE TO BOOKSELLERS, PROPRIETORS OF CIRCULATING LIBRARIES, AND THE PUBLIC. Tn Publishers of this work give notice that it is Copyright, and that in case of infringement they will avail themselves of the Protection now granted by Parliament to English Literature. Any person having in his possession for sale or for hire a Foreign edition of an English Copyright is liable to a penalty, which the Publishers of this work intend to enforce. It is necessary also to inform the Public generally, that single Copies of such works imported by travellers for their own reading are prohibited, and the Custom-house officers in all our ports have strict orders to this effect. The above regulations are equally in force in our Dependencies and Colonial Possessions. London, Jan. 1844. LoNDoN: Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODZ, New- Street- Square. , Qy -MIK, -3j THE J9I HIThLANDS OF iETHIOPIA. BY MAJOR W. CORNWALLIS HARRIS, OF THE HON. E. I. COMPANY'S ENGINEERS; AUTHOR OF " WILD SPORTS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA," "PORTRAITS OF AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS," ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1844. EXTRACT OF INSTRUCTIONS ADDRESSED BY THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF BOMBAY TO CAPT. W. C. HARRIS. Bombay Castle, 24th April, 1841. SIR, I am directed to inform you, that the Honourable the Governor in Council having formed a very high estimate of your talents and acquirements, and of the spirit of enterprise and decision, united with prudence and discretion, exhibited in your recently published Travels "through the territories of the chief Moselekatse to the tropic of Capricorn," has been pleased to select you to conduct a Mission which the British Government has resolved to send to Sahela Selassie, the King of Shoa in Southern Abyssinia, whose capital, Ankober, is computed to be about four hundred miles inland from the port of Tajdra on the African coast. The Mission will be conveyed to Aden in the Honourable Company's steam frigate Auckland, now under orders to leave Bombay on the 27th instant; and it has been arranged that one of the Honourable Company's vessels of war, at present in the Red Sea, shall be in readiness to convey the Mission thence to Tajtira, at which latter place it should immediately disembark, and commence its journey to Ank6ber. (Signed) J. P. WILLOUGHBY, Secretary to Government. To Captain W. C. HARRIS, Corps of Engineers. A3 J . 5 3 J THE EMBASSY WAS THUS COMPOSED: CAPTAIN W. C. HARRIS, Bombay Engineers. CAPTAIN DOUGLAS GRAHAM, Bombay Army, Principal Assistant. AssISTANT-SURGEON RUPERT KIRK, Bombay Medical Service. Dr. J. R. ROTH, Natural Historian. LIEUTENANT SYDNEY HORTON, H. M. 49th Foot, -as a Volunteer. LIEUTENANT W. C. BARKER, Indian Navy. ASSISTANT-SURGEON IMPEY, Bombay Medical Service. Mr. MARTIN BERNATZ, Artist. Mr. ROBERT SCOTT, Surveyor and Draftsman. Mr. J. HATCHATOOR, British Agent at Tajura. Escort and Establishment:Two sergeants and fifteen rank and file; volunteers from H. M. 6th Foot, and from the Bombay Artillery. An Assistant Apothecary. Carpenter. Smith. Two Tent Lascars. A4 INTRODUCTION. WRITTEN in the heart of Abyssinia, amidst manifold interruptions and disadvantages, the follow-' ing pages will be found redolent of no midnight oil. Their chief recommendation must be sought in the fact of their embodying a detail of efforts zealously directed under the auspices of a liberal Government, towards the establishment of a more intimate connection with a Christian people, who know even less of the world than the world knows of them, -towards the extension of the bounds of geographical and scientific knowledge, the advancement of the best interests of commerce, and the amelioration of the lot of some of the least favoured portions of the human race. An obvious necessity for the introduction of the foregoing extract from his instructions, will exonerate the Author from an intention to appropriate as his due the very gratifying encomium passed upon his previous exertions in Southern Africa. As a public servant, the freedom of his INTRODUCTION. pen has now in some measure been curtailed; but his official position and resources, added to the able assistance placed at his command, have, on the other hand, extended more than commensurate advantages. To Captain Douglas Graham, his accomplished and early friend, and principal assistant, he acknowledges himself most especially indebted, for the aid of a head and of a pen, such as are not often to be found united. The exertions of Assistant-Surgeon Kirk alleviated incalculable human suffering; and his perseverance, although long opposed by an unfavourable climate, carried through a series of magnetic and astronomical observations of the highest importance to Abyssinian geography. An indefatigable devotion to the cause of science, added to the experience gained during previous wanderings in Palestine, eminently adapted the learned Dr. Roth to discharge the arduous functions of natural historian to the Mission; and the splendid collection realized, together with the researches embodied in the various appendices to these volumes, will afford the fullest evidence of his industry and success. To all who were associated with himself in view to the better attainment of the objects contem- INTRODUCTION.
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