CHArrIEK: Vi. 
THE ABYSSINIANS GIVE ME A RoOvAL RECEPTION — THE Town or GINEA 
—— OFFERS OF WIVES — GENERAL WAL-DA-GUBBRA AND HIS FAMILY — 
THE ABYSSINIANS— FRENCH INFLUENCE — I WRITE 10 EMPEROR 
MENELEK — AN ELEPHANT Hunt — A GreEatT DISCOVERY — A VERY 
3EAUTIFUL AND CURIOUS SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGE; THE CAVES OF 
WyYNDLAWN — MEETING THE CARAVAN AGAIN AT SHEIKH MOHAMMED — 
Lone DrELays — AN ExTINcr CRATER — BEAUTIFUL NEW. Birp — We 
CAN WAIT NO LONGER MarcH TO THE Buppa. 
WAS astonished at the preparations made for my 
reception by Wal-da-Gubbra. A broad road was cut 
for us through the thick bush, more than a hundred Galla 
slaves having been engaged in this work. These natives 
were standing in groups as we passed, and, to show their 
respect, bowed down to the ground before us. It seemed, 
indeed, as if I were to be given a royal reception. When 
we got to within half a mile of Ginea we were met by 
a troop of Abyssinians, led by Hazach Jarro, Wal-da- 
Gubbra’s interpreter. Next to the old general, this man, 
who was a eunuch, was the most powerful commander 
in Ginea. The town of Ginea is situated on an isolated 
hill rising from an undulating, grassy plateau to the south 
of the Gillett Mountains. A high, thick wooden stockade 
surrounds about a hundred and fifty large thatched huts, 
while outside of this stockade are scattered twice that 
number of native dwellings. A dozen large tents scat- 
tered among the huts give the place rather a military 
appearance. 
