XX 
THROUGH SOMALILAND AND ABYSSINIA 
CHAPTER XI 
WITH THE BRITISH MISSION TO KINO MENELIK, 1897 
Sent to represent India on the Mission — Meeting with Italian prisoners 
marching down — The Italian Red Cross Mission — A forced march to 
Gildessa to get transport — Aito Merzha, Governor of Gildessa' — Impres- 
sions of the journey up the pass to Harar — Makunan’s escort into Harar 
— Buying mules — Sent on with Speedy — Scenery in the Harar Highlands 
— Some peculiarly English country — Crossing the Hawash — A camel 
accident — Over high veldt country to Addis-Abbaba — The opening audience 
— Menelik’s personality — Dining with Menelik and his thousand officers 
— The Feast of St. Raguel — Ritual in the church : the dance of King 
David before the Ark of the Covenant — A feu de joie — The scene 
marching home — Presents for the King and Queen — The final day — 
Escorted by 20,000 soldiers — A magnificent sight — The march to the 
coast — Daily routine — Astronomy — British and French positions for 
Addis-Abbaba compared — Fast marching — Political reflections — Our 
African frontier compared with our Asiatic one — Importation of arms by 
France — Abyssinian character — Vindication of Somali character — Sport 
on the road — Somaliland as a future hunting-ground . Pages 268-292 
CHAPTER XII 
Notes on the Fauna of Somaliland 
293-327 
Appendix I. — On Fitting Out SomXli Expeditions 
329 
II. — Physical Geography of Som/liland 
354 
III. — Fitting Out an Expedition for Abyssinia 
IV. — Notes on Somali Trade . 
366 
373 
Index . 
377 
