The Life and Correspondence of Henry Salt Consul General in Egypt

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. Altered conduct of the Ras?An explanation.?Misconduct of Hadjee Hamet?Journey to Adowa.?Arrival at Axum. ?Ancient Inscription.?Abyssinian Church and Obelisk. ?Irreconcilable statements of Salt and Bruce.?Return to Adowa.?Abyssinian ladies.?Leave Adowa.?Arrival at Antalo.?Muster of the Ras's army?Confidence reestablished between Salt and the Ras.?Take leave of the Ras.?Journey back towards Massowah?Salt and his party join their friends on board the' Panther.?Termination of the first Expedition to Abyssinia.?Conduct of the Nayib of Massowah?Perilous situation of the Panther. ?Inhospitable reception at Massowah.?Sail for Jidda Join a caravan for Cairo?Excursion to the Pyramids Embark in a Canja on the Nile Return to England. September 1st, mules were furnished for Captain Rudland and Mr. Salt to take a ride and view the environs of Antalo. ' Their followers, however, werg confined with great strictness to a walled enclosure, about thirty feet square; and on Mr. Salt remonstrating on the subject, he was told, it was done for their security. Itbegan to be evident soon after, from the coolness of the Ras and his wish to avoid any private interview, that some intriguing was going on, which caused the party a good deal of uneasiness, and they were induced, from several circumstances, to believe that Hadjee Hamet, who .had absented himself, and was in the interest of the sheriffe of Mecca, was playing a false part, and exciting the jealousy of the Ras against them. The event soon justified these apprehensions. After repeated applications for an audience, which were as constantly evaded under the most frivolous pretexts, Mr. Salt determined on at once cutting the Gordian knot, by going without ceremony into the presence of the Ras, attended by Captain Rudland, a...