CHAP. XXVIII 



A DESCENDANT OF EMPERORS 



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there was an Englishman in the place, he had come 

 to announce his intention of joining my caravan. This 

 he did, and remained with me off and on till I reached 

 Asmara, where he found work. 



Later in the afternoon the Shum in charge of the 

 town came down with a small present of bread, and sat 

 waiting a long time for other provisions which he had 

 ordered to be brought me. He was a handsome old 



A HORSE'S Mausoleum. 



man, with a fine cast of features, and seemed to feel 

 deeply the way in which his commands were neglected. 

 During my stay at Gondar we became great friends ; 

 he traced his descent from Yasous "The Great," and 

 used to recount to me tales of the past greatness of the 

 palace of his forebears. Close to my camp, and just 

 outside the walled enclosure of one of the ruined 

 churches, was a small circular domed building, which 

 reminded me of the mausoleums round Delhi. The 

 Shum told me it was built by the emperor Fasildas 



