1 2 2 SFOR T IN ABYSSINIA. 



leaving Gindar. John said he would go down into 

 the jungle with us. The only words of English he 

 knew were, " How do you do ?" and " Good morning," 

 which he uttered whenever one addressed him. His 

 trade was that of a silversmith, in Adowa, which I am 

 told is a very lucrative one, as dollars are given to 

 make into silver ornaments, such as the decorations 

 of a shield, etc., and then as the dollars, which are 

 already of rather base metal, are mixed with a good 

 amount of tin, by the time the ornaments are made 

 there is not much original metal left in them. Mans- 

 field Parkyns, in his very entertaining book on Abys- 

 sinia, gives an account of the silversmiths at Adowa. 

 One of the young chiefs at Adiaboo, a relation of Adik 

 the old chief, also said he would go down into the 

 jungle with us and help us to hunt. This young man 

 was about eighteen or nineteen, and was accompanied 

 by a sort of bear-leader, a much older Abyssinian, 

 who, in fact, had been his tutor all his life — a man 

 named Barrakee. This old fellow was chief of a small 

 village on the frontiers of Abyssinia, and close to 

 the Baria tribe. Some part of the Baria country 

 is supposed to belong to Abyssinia ; and Barrakee 

 told us that he actually received tribute of wild 

 honey and other small things from the Baria. This 

 man played a very important part during the rest of 

 our journey ; and, when the young chief left us while 



