422 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA chap. 



his regret at not having been here on my arrival, and 

 the hope that everything I wanted had been done. I 

 gave him the Emperor's letter to Ras Makunnen for 

 him to return to the writer, as the Ras had left Tigre, 

 and got from him an order for all my caravan to be 

 allowed to pass the frontier sentry at Daro Tuckey. 

 Just beyond the spot where we were seated, on a spur 



A Church near Adua. 



of the hills running- out into the plain, was a walled 

 enclosure, with a large, square building in the centre ; 

 away to our right rose one of the conical hills dotted round 

 Adua, which, with the plain at our feet stretching away 

 into the distance, made up a typical Tigrean landscape. 



Daro Tuckey crowns the edge of the plateau 

 towards the valley of the Mareb: there is no water 

 near the village and very little level ground. The man 

 in charge of the post seemed to levy blackmail on all 

 travellers ; the only distinction he made between them 



