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Europe. Thus your name will not perish from among 

 us, and our land will be a granary for the regions of 

 the West. And this being so, know that my country 

 and I love you. I am anxious to aid you in your 

 enterprise with cattle or in any other way. I pray 

 the Lord to keep you." 



I complete this plain narrative of the leading facts 

 in the history of Abyssinia, by expressing the hope 

 that France will come to an understanding with 

 England to restore to a population of thirty million 

 Christians, now driven into the mountains, their 

 ancient maritime territory. 



France has respect for all "forms of religion, but 

 she is opposed to religious fanaticism, and it seems 

 to me that in what looks like the impending dis- 

 turbance of the Mahometan world, she has a noble 

 mission to fulfil, that of maintaining aloft the standard 

 of civilization in the vast regions of Algeria, Senegal 

 the Gaboon, the Congo, Christian Ethiopia, and the 

 Eoudaire Sea. 



