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enclosure or “Gébi,” the highest building of all, looking rather 
like a pretty modern bungalow. The enclosure, with the build- 
ings crowded inside it, covered the whole of a low, wart-like 
kopje, and this commanded the undulating grassy district, 
intersected with gully-like streams and covered with circles of 
huts, which forms one vast camp, and is called Addis-Abbaba. 
Entotto, the old capital of Shoa, deserted in 1892, lay on a 
height four miles to the right, the conical roofs of the churches 
of St. Mariam and St. Raguel being visible on two summits of 
the ridge, which rises in places to between nine thousand and 
SOME MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH MISSION IN THE COURTYARD 
OF MENELIK’S PALACE. 
ten thousand feet, and some one thousand five hundred feet 
above Addis-Abbaba. 
An officer sent by the King led us to the old compound of the 
Compagnie Franco-Africaine. Here we were grimly reminded 
that there had lately been war, for the Russian Medical Mission 
had been before us and left a souvenir of their visit when in 
care of the Adua wounded: a pit outside the compound being 
full of bandages, still attractive enough to the hyenas to be dug 
up and scattered nightly. 
Full of dramatic and artistic interest was the opening audi- 
ence given by Menelik in the audience-hall at the palace. We 
rode in the usual order to the doors, past seventy mountain guns 
