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formerly in a mission at Zanzibar, where he learnt English ; and 
he married a Goanese from India, since dead, who could paint 
in water-colours, and whose sketches were hanging on the walls 
of his house. My friend had furnished it as far as possible in 
the English style, and while there I enjoyed the comforts of an 
English lodging free of cost, besides good champagne and roast 
beef cooked by the wife of an Armenian who works for the Ras. 
I have nothing but pleasant recollections of the kind hospitality 
of the Abyssinians at Harar, and of Signor Felter and his 
charming wife. 
My baggage not arriving on the 16th, I rode out five miles, 
on a mule, along the road, to look for it. When it arrived in 
the evening, I found my servant Ibrahim, a Somali boy of nine- 
teen, had met with an accident; an angry Abyssinian, armed 
with a spear, had been chasing his own servant, when the latter 
ran to Ibrahim for protection ; the aggressor turned on Ibrahim 
and threw his spear, and trying to ward off the blow he received 
the spear through the palm of his hand. It was a bad cut, 
severing an important vein, so that the hand had been bleeding 
at intervals for nearly two days; and Ibrahim arrived in a very 
weak state. I complained to the Ras, and the culprit was 
caught and put into prison, Ibrahim receiving the small com- 
pensation of twenty-five piastres, or about three rupees. I told 
the police officials that all my servants had orders to use their 
carbines, if necessary, in self-defence, and expressed astonish- 
ment at Ibrahim’s forbearance. 
On 17th March I had a long interview with Ras Makunan, 
when he expressed great friendship for the British ; and I con- 
veyed to him the kind regards of General J.. Jopp, C.B., Political 
Resident of Aden, and the Italian Consul-General Cecchi, and 
of other officers known to him personally or by correspondence. 
After the audience I met Count Salimbeni at dinner at the 
house of Signor Felter. 
On the following day I called on M. Gabriel Guigniony, a 
French merchant, and Monseigneur Taurin Cahaigne, officially 
“Vicaire Apostolique des Galla.” He bas been many years in 
the country, and probably knows more about Galla history than 
any man. 
In the afternoon I spent a long time with the Ras, and gave 
him a photograph-album of Indian scenes, and also a tiger-skin 
mounted on red cloth. He was much struck with some of the 
photographs which represented Indian elephants in a “khedda” ; 
