TO ABYSSINIA THHOICJH AN UNKNOWN LAND M J MY MOT TO IIKU ANO KN I
tWK MWH PREFACE the highlands of British Bast Africa and the region
of Southern Abyssinia is a broad of desolate and unexplored
country. Great natural have to be surmounted in crossing this belt.
It Is waterless and affords no food for man, and some no for
animals, A part of the country in a mass of volcanic debris,
utterly uninhabited, and no guides are obtainable. It required a
certain amount of persuasion and en eonragement to hearten up my
men to the enterprise of this unknown land especially at that
period we were without guides. At they were mutinous, fearing that
they would die of thimt, and we wore perhaps only saved from that
fete by the happy discovery of a water-hole At othar and appeared
too worn out to care or to make any effort to reach the next
Nevertheless ft great measure of praise is cfoe to My nadE for the
manner in which they accom the journey. On M of this sort it is
easy enough to lead, vll viti but a very much harder matter to
follow blindly and obediently, and o they deserve the highest
tribute. With the exception of the two headmen and my hoy they were
all highknders men absolutely unsulted to the conditions of life in
the low country. Dependent in their villages almost entirely on
grain, and used to the cool air of the East African Highland, and
no lade of running streams, they suffered terribly from tho heat
and thirst of the lava desert and the roducod rationa of food.
After passing through thin waterleHB atrip, and reaching the
southern borders of Abymsinia, one to a country profuse in little
tribes, all differing one another to a greater or degree in
oitttoiiw language. Putting aside thosetribes a little off my
route, of 1 met only one or two individuals, there war different
tribes through whoae country ray me The study of these peoples and
their varhxl teristics was to me a most intor sting part of tha
Many of these are but uncivilised barbarian but such as the
WaJlamu, undoubtedly btow of prung from an old oivilleation,
perhaps aaoient Egypt. Another interesting feature ww to see the in
the Abysiinians administrate their und the numerous ubject4rlb
mettods leave much to be tb y fco rale their territories wiih m
ftiil s juttoe which, all wo FltEFACl k All my photographs have
been developed and printed by my aunt, Mm Idgar Clark. My moat
grateful thanks are due to her for the great skill and patience
with which she UOH produced the results here shown. My Ihankn are
also due to Major C. W. Gwyim, O. H. G., D. 8. O., ltJl for placing
at my disposal materials from which the nketch of the route from
the Omo River to Addut Ababa in compiled. My route nketches and
observations which appear in the of tho Rudolf dfetrict were based
on points fixed by P. Maud, 0,1G, B. B. I ot omit to mention Abdi
Hassan, my head ittiifij to whone faithful services the successful
issue of the trip WIIH mainly attributable, 0-EL 1910 CONTENTS
CHAPTER I TRBPARATIONS FOR TUB JOUENKY - - - - 17 CHAPTER II TRBK
TO t. AlKIMA .... 31 CHAPTER, III THE I, AIKI1 IA WJUNN - - - - 41
CHAPTER IV THE 8AMBUKR OOUNTUY - - - - - 55 CHAPTER V TUB BARTA
STKlPK - - - - 71 CHAPTKll VI THE BRNDILR OOUNTRV - - 88 CHAPTER
VII THB RBNDILK COUNTUV omtinwl - - - 103 OHAPTBB VIII TUB WATKRLWS
KLGffitf - - - - - 115 CHAPTER IX MIK BOEANA - - - - - 127 CHAPTEE
X MORJK UNKNOWN WATBIt-HOLES - - - - 142 xi xii CONTENTS CHAPTERXI
M TTOEPONA WATBR-HOLK - lfi CHAPTER XI WE REACH LAKE RUDOLK - 173
CHAPTER XIII A LUCKY KIND 0V WATKll - - 184 CHAPTER XIV THB LAST OF
TUB UNINHABITED TEACT - 196 CHAPTER XV THB RESHIAT ...... 210
CHAPTER XVI THB OMO IUVBU ANT NBRI DB8KRT - - - 230 CHAPTER XVII A
MOUNTAINOUS OOUNTJRY - 247 CHAPTER XVIII UBA 263 CHAPTER XIX
CROSSING THK MOLHHA - - 380 CHAPTER XX THB WALLAMU . . 392 CHAITEK
XXI ON THB ROAD TO ADDIS ABAliA - 304 CHAPTER XXII WE REACH A0WS
ABABA - - 316 CHAPTER XXIII THE BND OF THK JOURNKY - . 39 INDJJX -
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