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had borne up against this fiery trial began. to flag, “ algage havmg at length been consigned to the shoulders thei d ‘ . diinness came before the drowsy eyes, giddiness seized Iof SIX hundred grumbling Moslem porters—for here the f ' r aggers, made such formidable slaughter, that the the brain, and the hope held out by the guides, ofwater ‘ camel, from the steepness of the hills, was useless— Pasha was glad to escape by a precipitate retreat. in advance, seemed like the delusion ofa dream.” Inland forming a line, which extended upwards of anti 'lheiJews form an important part of the population, this crisis, at which our chief wonder is, that Majorlthe embassy, on the morning of theil7th. 00mm“; articzins and manufacturers. Feeling the natural Harris and his explorers were ever heard ofagain, or hail - the ascentofthe Abyssinian Alps‘ the flutes again play? veneration for'the Chosen People in all their misfortunes, left any memorials of themselves but their 5, a wild l the wild warriors ofthe escort twain chanted their song” and convmced that. the time will come when those mis- Bedouin was seen, “like a delivering anyhurryingilt was a cool and lovely morniiig, and an invigoratil do," 0, human intercourse seems to be spreading ‘hrough fp‘rtunes willrbeobliterated, itis highly gratifying to find, forward with a large skin, filled with muddy water. Thisi breeze played over the mountain’s side, on which, nf;-~..‘» a” nauons. Europe has laid aside her perpetual wars, t atleven in this place oftheir ancieritsiifi‘eriiigs they well-timed supply was diVided among the fainting peo-‘less than ten degrees from the equator, flourished tb' a{Id seems to be assumingahabit ofpeace‘ Even France’yii‘ehieginmng to feel the benefit of British protection. ple: a quantity was poured over the face and down the vegetation of northern clinics. The rough and' story thnheno the moat belligerent of European nawms’ is evi_ it erto, through their indefatigable industry, havuig throat of each; and at a late hour, u ghastly, haggard, ‘ road 'wound on, by a steep ascent, over hill and dale,nov dgmly abandoning the passifll for conques‘, and begin_ apqnutiired opulence in Arabia as elsewhere, they were and exhausted, like men who had escaped from the Jawsgskirting some precipitous ascent, now dipping into tie ,| “mg to exert her fine-powers in me cul‘ivation or com_ ahl'al either to display or to enjoy it; but now, under ofdeath,the whole had contrived to struggle into a camp, basm of some verdant hollow, where it suddenly «he'- merce. A“ the nations “r Europe are either rouowing t eprotection of the British flag, they not merely enjoy which,‘ but for the fore5ight and ‘firmness of the son ofgged into a succesion of shady lanes, boutded by flower- .Jler example) or sending out Colonies of greater or less thpir' wealth, but they publicly practise themes of their Ali Abi, (whohad sent the water,) few individuals would ‘ tug hedgerows.” V magnitude, to fin me wild Portions 0mm work, Refine igipn. Stoneslabs Wll’li‘ Hebrew inscriptions mark have reached alive."_ _* “‘ * 0 All this is so like England, and so unlike Mica. .g-Ious huherw uuerly neglecled,md even scarce”, known’I lip not; of theirdead. I hey have schools for the edu- . In any part of Africa a river of tolerable magnitudelthat we should suspect the major’s mema’y to have teen age becoming objems 0‘. enlighteuéd regard ; and man_ pa iudrib thieirglii-ldren ; and their men and-women, ar- is an object of the most anxwus interest; and tlie‘ap- asactive at least as his observation. Bit the work (on- kiud, in every quarter, is approaching, with greater or aye in t eir oliday apparel, Sit fearlessly in the syna- proach to the Hawash, the honour“ of the king-ytauis so much internal evidence of acciracy, indemn-

YL i t 2 I? a t 11 L‘ 2 . (From. Blackwood’s Magazine for March.)

ETHIOPIA.

From the various circumstances of our day, the im- presston is powerfully made upon intelligent men in Eu- rope, that some extraordinary change is about to take mlace in the general condition of mankind. A new ar-

these wild warriors were assembled from one tribe. They crept into the Egyptian calnp by night, and, using only

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Jess speed, to that combined interest and mutual imeh gpgne, and listen to the reading ofthe law and the pro- dam of Shoa, was looked to wi' 'r expectation.——ldently of the confidence attached to !he character of cQurse which meme first steps to the true possession pliets,‘aslof old. It is a great source of gratification to of the globe. as re s. ' an. :18 Pllllanthropist to find, that wherever England extends

It is remarkable that Africa, one of the largest and Erwwekgndusgy’ commerce “NATE?” “the "mural must fertile portions oftheglobe, remains one of the least :11 ‘en’ fine". as file 5°” '5’ ‘5 endem'y snp'i known. Furnishing materials of commerce which have Dim mg mfla prpsliemy winch " {lever possessed’ even been objects of universal desire since the deluge—gold, 31d”? 0"“)? “(Tingling (gays' E'mfimms from. Yemnn‘ gems, ivory, fragrant gums, and Spices—it has still re- ( r m )0 lbmres O the RH} bea’ are daily ("mid-

mained almost untna'ersed by the European foot’excep‘ ing Within the walls, through the security which they _ . . . along its cone! It h“ been circumnavio‘ated b the offer against native oppressmii. In the short space ofldistarit, the ultimate destination of the embassy appeared ~ ‘. . 0 y . . three years, the population has risen to twenty thousand l almost to have been gained and none had an idea of ships of every European nation; its slave tra ie has diVi- , . . . . . . . ’ . . d d . ‘ f . . . . souls. Suostantial dwellings are “5an up iii every quar- the length (if time that must elapse before his foot should e its proits and its pollutions amonu the chiefiiations . n . . . ,, . “the eastern and western worlds. a tad et to m.“ hour, ter, and at all the adjacent ports hundreds of native press the sod of Aiikober. A day of intense heat was, . . I n y ’ . ‘ ‘ merchants are only waitinzr the...erection of permanent as usual, followed by a heavy fall of rain, which, owing there are regions of Africa probably amounting to hal - - . ° . ~ . - ~ ~ ° - . -. .’ v . n fortifications, in token of our intendintr to remain, torto the unaccommodatiuu arranoemerit of strikino the its bulk, and passessmo kinadoms of the stze of France . . . ° l ° ° 6 and Spa-m orwhich ET”! 95h ‘ h a d than of flock under the guns iuithtlieir families and wealth. Thegtents at sunset, thoroughly drenched the whole party. , _ ’ ’l’ “S_ “0 “"538 e r opinion of this intelligent writer is that Aden, as a free The new difficulty was how to cross the Hawash, “ se- theknmdoms ofthe planet In iter ’1 he extent of Af- . . . ’ . . . ’ . . . . . ricaisei’lormom, 5000 .l l - h 4600, b eadm port, whilst she pours wealth into a now impoverished cond ofthe rivers ofAbyssmia, and rising in the very it “mus nearl‘ '3 g '1" F83; ffighdo ‘“ r mes; land, mustfire long become the queen of the adjacent heart of Ethiopia, at an elevation of 8000 feet above the the chief an 3:”,(1‘q'lared‘b. f r ' l; Sg‘mrzigmer' seas, and rank amongst the most useful dependencies of,sea. It is fed by the niggardly tributaries from the high mnean topbreék 'h‘grm"? ’, or we "9“" 0 no ‘ ‘i for the British crown. biilwarks of Shoa and El'at, and fiows,like agreat artery. the “titers of “S hisucontinidilty——-n0l mlg “y {:Serz‘nerNi The mission having remained some time at Aden, to through the arid plains of the Adaiel, green and wooded er al'ld the Nile f if“ 50‘“ch Y more. “a” ‘l‘ame purchase horses and stores, sailed on the 15th May, and, throughout 'its long course, and finally absorbed in the gown“ of t‘li [Mfr e .means‘? pfne‘ratho an); 5 on lasing sight of Aden, the members of the mission lagoons of Aussa. The canopy of llcecy clouds, which, ' p O” [h “its use c?"“m|im' l , A 1 Mi. “hm characteristically took the “ Pilgrims’ vow” not to shave as mid-day dawned, hiiug thick and heavy over the lofty . v.thel. (inflow: 0 3} s“_"yffiay ‘P P“ t “(if k‘ed until their return. blue peaks beyond, gave sad presage of the deluge that "3’ LI duls EFF“? Tnl.sc‘enu c “,SSW'meS'fi'“ 2' ‘k The progress to the interior from the port ofTajura, was pouring between its verdant banks from the higher :3" ‘93" 1:): J?" “(rm compfllly 3 steamsnh “:1 led them over immense ranges of basaltic cliffs, where regions of the source.” * * " ka-mq’lm t er ml”. 0,Bombay' 0" mfg”: voyage: to, la the heat oftlie sun was felt with an intensity scarcely They were now on “the spot which exhibited the lair; omTi) ma’ "l summer" Abyssmm' m “e w?" cnnceivable by European footings. In this land of fire, forest life ofAfrica.” In a lake adjoining theriver, the 7 . ' h fie Stem" fr'ga‘e Pursue‘l _her way Prosl’e'935.-V the road skirting the base ofa barren range covered with hippopotamus“ rolled his unwieldy carcase to the surface, t.r?ugré e “Antlers, “pd 0” me "'“Eh ,day “71‘s “"T‘lm heaps oflava blocks, and its foot marked by piles of amid floating crocodiles, protruding his snout to blow a $31“) “ind cn’ "‘[er 11. VOTE“ ‘31-‘68” ml 83' Rte stones, the memorials ofdeeds of blood, the lofty conical snort that might be heard at the distance of a mile.” “.P‘l’i "gill"? by the “am/es Jei’e‘ Shemflr‘", “3”; peak ofJebel Seearo rose in sight, and not long after- An unfortunate donkey, which had been partly drowned N?“ Y i U" {ceilab‘we the ocean, ‘3 fl'efluemd 02pm? wards the far-famed Lake Assad, surronfided by its dan- and parily strangled, was thrown outof the camp. No withrlclouds, a wild and fissuer mass of rock, Zn evr- 6mg mirage, was seen sparkling at its base. sooner had niglit fallen, than this prey roused the appe- ( en} y “mend”! by nail-"e for one "l “'9'” gr?“ file-(35 One of the advantages of continental travel has been tiles of the whole forest. While the rain descended in Which “noun”? ‘he “PP”?th ‘0 a“ mlan‘} Sead' . ;' long since said to be its teaching us how many comfort- torrents, the howl and growl of Wild beasts was heard at mnndfng the caller ll“: 3”“5h eyc “'3? flel'ghte “En able things we enjoy at home; and it appears that no their banquet on the donkey throughout. the night. "'9 ,S-[ght “the Red 5?“ S‘l‘m‘lronv “dlmg in am I“ Englishman can comprehend the value ofthat despised Lightning played over the woods; the “ violent snap- wuhm the "Obie ha)" Fhe arr‘vnl or We mg“? a so fluid, fresh water, until he has left the precincts ofhis ping of the branches proclaimed the .nocturnal move- cfmsed a Sgnsmmn 0" the Shore ;‘ and M33” Hm”? th' own fortunate land ; but it is in Africa, and peculiarly ments of the elephant and hippopotamus ;” thelond roar 'pdy descnbes the: reel”)? “"th “’h'c.“ 3‘ new arnval is on this Abyssinian high road, thatthe value ofa draughtiand startling snort were constantly heard; and by morn- ha'led bl] the Brm§h garnsonfln, th‘“ firmly 59m! the” ofspring water is to be especially estimated. “Since leav-lling every vestige of the dead animal, even to the ouly exc'mmem bemg ihe PenOd'cal V‘s'tsoflhe Packeis ing the shores of India,” says Major IIarris, “ the party I had dls"l’l)°are‘l'

At leiigth the height was reached» ram which was obtain— the intelligent writer himself, that we nUSt believe the ed “ an exhilarating prospect over the dark, lone valley ofthc long looked-for IIawash. The course of the river was marked by a dense belt oftrees and verdure, stretch- ing towards the base ofthe great mountain range, of which the cloud-capped cone, which frowns over ilie capital of Shoa, forms the most conspicuous feature.” ’Tlic mission now began to exult :—“'l‘hougli still for

heart of Ethiopia to possess' scene: that would be worthy oftlie heartof our own fresh aid flower-bearing * island. The scene which follows is quite Arcadian: “The wild rose, the fern, the lantern, and the honey- suckle, smiled round a succession of highly cultivated terraces“ and on every eminence shod a cluster ofco- nically thatched houses, enviroiied ly green hedges, and partially embowered amid dark ;rees. As the troop passed on, the peasant abandoned lis occupation to gaze at the novel proc055ion ; while meiry groups of hooded women, decked in scarlet and criirson. left their avoeas lions in the but to welcome the king’s guest with a shrill zirolect, which rang from every hand. Birds warbled among the groves. At variousturnsof the road the prospect was rugged, wild and beautiful. The first . ? i Christian village was soon revealed on the summit of "n ' height. Three principal ranges of hills were next crossed in succession. hastly, the view opened upon the wooded site of Ankober, occupying a central posi- - tion in a horseshoe cresceutof the mountains, still high 5 above, Which encloses a magnificent amphitheatre of ten miles in diameter. \ This is clothed throughout with a splendid, vigorous, and varied vegetation." _ ‘ i

.The embassy now halted, waiting for permission to » enter the capital, and taking up their quarters in a town 1, three thousand feet above Furri, on the frontier. The f escort of the troop fired a salute on entering, and as they marched along, performed the war dance. A vetera‘n i capered before;he ranks, with a drawn sword between his teeth, and the martial song was chorused by three hundred Christian throats. The prospect from this ele- vated point naturally struck the travellers with astonish- merit and admiration. The site of the town is only one of the thousand cones into which the mountain side il 5 l broken as it qpproaches the plain. The prospect our the plain was boundless, and countless villages met the eye upon the mountain slope. Wherever the plough could go, all was cultivated. Wheat, barley, Indian corn, beans, peas, cotton, and oil plants, throve luxu- riantly round every hamlet. The regularly marked fields mounted on terraces to the height of three or four .‘ Skunt thousand fect,-becoming in their boundaries more and ‘

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between Suez and Bombay. In the dead of the night a bliie light shoots up in the offing. It is answered by the illumination of the block ship, then the thunder of her guns is heard, then, as she nears the shore, the flap- ping of her paddlesis heard through the silence. the“

had gradually been in training towards a disregard ofdirty water. ()1) board a ship of any description, seldom very clear or very plentiful.

there ‘was little perceptible difference water and the land water.

At Cape Aden,

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between the sea liqns, elephants, panthers, and hippopotaini; the sands. ‘m n" (,lcvmion (“13,000 feet above the sea. At Tajura, the beverage ob-,the forests,

. Aff'c'“ in a.” “5 pmvmceg’ .'5 the more indistinct, until totally lost in the shadowy green tsceiie ol the boldest field sports in the worlil—lndia and side of Mam”, (,he Mom" (,mece.) This mountain lndia in the variety and multitude ofits mighty savages— below. I, is domed whh a dense forest, and “05nd. , , . Here are “‘0 Junglesi the “vent the mamhm' every' l collected, for security, the treasures ofthe monarch which

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the spectral lantern appears at the mast-head, and then

s}: “the? to hf” a"°l'°ragei leavmg l" her‘wifke a long taint of the new skins in which it was transferred from d i h b l l’ 05? 0“° "am- , the only well' and now, in the very heart of the scorch- human race on the lowest gra e, iast e rute on i is Afler several further sm )3 es the emered [he re. The coast of Arabia has no claims to the. pictureSQuel ing .vliehawa,’ where a copious draught of pure water highest, and its true name is the great kingdom of sav- cepuon ha” It was changing m’ld shgwy.‘ The km, all its charms, like those of the oyster, lie Within the secured absolutely indispensable every five minutes, tliellage nature. _ _ walls gnuered with a profusion of silver ornaments. and roughest of posstble shells. Its first aspect resembles mixture was the very acme of abomination. Fresh hides, At length they reached the City of Furri, loaded for blazoned shields [Hammocks and double barre,“ guns. heaps Of‘he Cinders 0f“ glass'house“a bu'ld'“g whosie stript from the he-goat, besmeared inside as well as out-the thirty-fifth time, with the baggage oftlie British em- Persian carpets'and rugs or’a“ sizes colour and p“. he“ seems i" be “my realised by the t""‘l’emmre 0““.‘S with old tallow and strong barkJan, filled from an it'll-ibassy. The caravan, escorted by a detachment of three terns covered the floors , and “0"”: of govemors' fearful Place' England has a YGSideni lherei captain pure well at Sagallo, tossed and tumbled during two days hundred match-lock men, wrth flutes playing, and mus- chief; and Officers ohhe cam“ in meir holiday Mme. Haynesi "amed ‘15 POIlllcal “gent That any human b.e' and nights under a “ distilling heat,” formed a drink kets echoing, and the heads ofthe warriors decorated s‘ood‘i" .a posmm or respect Uncovered to the girdle. ing, who could exist in any other place, would remain which we should conclude to be little short of poison. with white plumes, on the 16th July entered the from Two wide alcoves receded» on ehher side. in one of in Aden, is one Of the wonders 0f human nature' A" However, the human throat learns to accommodate it-ltier town of the kingdom of Efat. Clusters of conical- which blazed a cheerful fire~ engrossed by indolent cats; _ officer, of course, must go wherever hehis sent; but Sufih selflto every thing in time, and the time came when even roofed houses, covering the Sides of twni hills, here pre- while in me other, on a flowered 8min ottoman, 8,". is the innate love for a post, that 'if this gallant and iii- ,his abomination “510,,ng {on _ sentedtlie first permanent habitations that had greeted rounded by whilered slaves and juvenile Pages, and sup; telligent person were roasted to death,_as might happen But the wmst was noLyet come. It was midnight the eye Since leavmg the sea-coasti—riide and iingainlyi poned by gay velvet cushions, lay .i "is mostChrmian in one of the coolest days ofthe Ethiopian summer,there when the party commenced the steep ascent oftlie south I but right welcome Signs of transition from depopulatcd Majesty‘. Sahel“ Selasse ,,,_The Dech Agulari’ (“"6 won“ be a thousand applicallfins bafore a mol‘th was eastern boundary of the lake, a ridge of volcanic rocks. wastes to the abodes of pram—«l lie African seems a rob- domkeeper') as master of ‘he wwmmfies’ Mood with a over, to the Foreign Office, for the honour of being 03‘“ “The north-east wind had scarcely diminished its parch- her by nature, and the sight o-fthe bales and boxes exci- rod of green rushes, m preserve the exact distance of bonated on the rocks of Aden. _ ing fierceness,, and in hot suffocating gusts swept over ted the national ‘plrnpenSity in a most Violent degree. approach m royalty; and as lhe British entered and Aden’s reputation for barrenness is an . old one— rhe glittering expanse of water and salt, where the moon 1 Even the .royal ministers and counters seem to have made the." bows’ poinmd them to chain, which done; ” Aden," says Be" Balm“ 0f Tangle“, “ ‘5 5mm“; upon shone brightly ; each deadly Pu"fsucceeded by the 51"" Mia Pasf'on for '00kmg ""9 mime Pfombned ma"’S'AreS' it was commanded that all should be covered. the sea-Shore; a large city Without Bllllel' 560d, waterior ness that foretells a trepical hurricane. The prospect which evidently tempted their virtue in a most‘per‘i oils The monarch was not unwonhy of figuring in ‘his “'58-” This was written five lllllldled Years “go; 3"" around was wild,——heetling, basaltic cones, and-lagged (degree: Meanwlme “, 5960‘“ "'essengequamve 'k-m'u- Pomp. Forty summers, of which eight-and-twenty had the Wins 0f forl'fical|0"5_ and WalCll'towe'S “longl ,the slabs ofshattered lava.” The path itselfwas formidable, ing reiterated compllllne?isnftflom thel gtegjooziugrézgiiglbeen Passed on me ,hmne’ had slighuy funsnnd his ‘IOCks‘ Show that even “"8 human oven. was the 0 [PM ‘Vlndl'lg along ‘he “est Of‘he “‘lge 9"“ She?“ orbmke." wuh a ho.rse and .a mu e. mi lie mya . A“ ' Tl forehead, and grizzled a ftill bushy head of hair. arran- ‘Of cupidliy in 93'1"” “mes; and “‘9 B““"’"‘ gun? br‘St' lava, with scarcely more than sufficient wtdth to admit the peculiar trappings which belong to Finale-“W- ‘ 10:3 ged in elaborate curls. Buuhough warning we 18“ eye, ding among the precipices, show that the desge is u‘nde- of their progress in single file, 'i The horrors of this dis} airliuna-lshawoke all the lloyal purmsitylo lie-peokpl e.d e; u the expression of his manly features, open, pleasing, ‘ ' i i ‘ ‘ ' ” The ho e 0 t e sig t women an gir 5, cute opet in no -r . . . b l. h h f . 7 , .cayed even in our. philosophic age. mal night set all description at defiance. . p_ _ , and commandmfl,‘ (“d “0, e ,e , e 0 “meter 0, mm“ ~ The Arab is still the prominent person among the na- water, though at the distance of Sixteenhmlles, excited shttftS, who had ihtrongetll tos‘tirne at fiiegizrlpgggfrsbolgplgs‘; “a, justice whicah he had obtained far and wide ; "an ‘ ‘ ' ‘ ’ ' ' ' ' ' ‘ - h even t is excitement In 0 a scream o acc ama l . N) .b “h I on u cam" Him a fine itive o ulation of this territory. Major Harris describes them for a while ,. but at lengt . . . 1 _ I _ _ , , ,he ,0 9, m e. o e ow. c n y g him iivdil. The bronzed and sunburnt Visage, surroun- failed, And N owmg m the heat, fasting, anddprpfillolllli :‘t’l'do‘l‘sm‘hmfl gs: incierzsa‘lfioérgéfs:33:$22131 :1: balance of gold." ded by long matted locks of raven hair ;_ the _slender but the limbs of the weaker _refused the task, an a tar :i e I (Leda top‘r. ma“ A rm 0“ that had been promi_ Arie.- ihe delivery of the ambassadorial letters, the ex- wiry and active frame, and the energetic gait and man- first two miles they dropped fast into the rear. n er 00 n s 0 ie i i y. h. , t m ursued b hwmon commenced, which had so long been the emy ner reclaimed the untameable descendant of Ishmael. the fiery blast of the midnight strocco the cry for water, sed, was turned loose among't e spec a rshg‘ y of the coumew and probably 'he conversmion or the iHe’nIimbl mounts the crupper of his new unladen dro- uttered feebly and with difficulty by numbers of parched fifty savages Willi their gleaming creecesb, pin ' amstrurlig kingdom. Theipresems were displayed. A rich Ems. imedar ayd t t tmoves down the bazar. A checked throats, now became incessant; and the supply for the b a d‘exterous blow, which threw it e owing totie gels car et which completely covered the hall Cash. ‘1‘ by} n ad ah_|’0b d a kilt of dark blue calico whole party falling short of a gallon and a half, it was earth in the height ofits inadvcareer, and tubes oflean {Pring and embrmdeéed Delhi surfs ofrrespien- _ :rsgzdiehigiisamgs cdfnwiisznhis slender costume. His not long to'be answered. A tiny sip of diluted vinegar curs commenced an .indiscriminate englagiment ovler 3105:: :ués gxcited universal admiranondehe finer ‘ arms have been rtpd tside the'liurkish wall; and for a moment assuaged the burning thirst which raged the garbage. The neighbouring nations on llpOllTl re s ecimensiwem handed .0 the king‘ As the various”.- . poSi e on _ t flanked - the Vitals. but its effects were transient, and, after population of this provmce With great contempt. hey P . h d l, h , d A 0.! as he locks back’ his meagre' femc oils aspec "‘ m ‘ i k ' declarin their say that their torioues are long for lying. their arms are 59"“ succeeded» ‘ e ‘3 ‘g '- "lcrease - 13'9"? by thattangled web of hair, stamps on the rowing ten- struggling a fewsieps, they sari again, , 3 no long for stealing sand their 1e” are long for running Chinese dancmz figures produced bursts-of merriment; ant of the desert. It is curious to find in this remote days to be numbered, and their resolution to rise up a an is o and when the European escort, in run umfmm‘ Wm, the