The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION•

The following is an extract from a letter CO!
Colonel Alerewether, just received by Sir Staffol'h
Northcote :
" We have just returned from a most interesting
and important reconnaissance up the pass fr°„.,/31
Koomoglee to within five miles by road fro`-•
Senafee, a distance of 41 miles. There were sell'
very bad places in one part, but the road has bee°
made now by the sappers easy for passage of caysiri;
infantry, mules, and camels ; and it will, I thin :
prove the chief line of route as leading at once °
good position on the highlands of Abyssinia in the
direction we have to go, and to a spot within earl

reach. I 0
" To-morrow we start up the Haddes to exarl'et
that, to as near as we can get to Tekonda, with°l.4.,l
actually entering it, or compromising the inhabitant'
by opening communications with them.
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" Sir R. Napier's excellent proclamation wag°
out on the Gth inst., and I hope for the best resell'
from it. Directly the ruler of Tigre, now Prills
Kassai, a rebel against Theodorus, shows he inteuiii
acting in a friendly manner towards us, there II a
be no impropriety in visiting both Tekonda
Senafee ; but until he does it would not be jastAc
the people of those places to make them run the ri's
of encountering his disp.easure before we were ill
position to protect them.
" I have been very vexed not to find a su.-
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plateau short of the Abyssinan highlands, btivo
was misled by the richness of the Agamettaplateed
west of Massowah, and have only now lear130:8
what no one seemed to have been able to tell of
before, that, as you go south of the latitudeely
Massowah, the lower hills become more Ptifbst
volcanic ; indeed, in some places entirely, S°
vegetation diminishes parri passu. h
The troops that have landed are, I am r-,ap 5a
to say, in excellent health and spirits. r-1-',`"Ter,
Light Cavalry had been losing horses from fend
but to-day on my arrival here I was glad t°.g tO
the disease disappearing. It was clearly 01_,Y,,
—e—fog
the effects of the sea voyage from India, and
cooped up ou board ship."
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A FEMALE MARKSMAN.--A Swiss journal -
that a young
Willis named Anna Arnold, sister of an figt
keeper at au (Lucerne), has just carried off thell
prize at a rifle-shooting competition of that town, lia

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made a white with every shot.
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A FEMALE CUT TO PIECES ON A RA---W1
On Tuesday a woman, supposed to be named Ann Cl
soots
cook in a gentleman's family, having boon out for Ad
time on business, was returning home, at Streetha'rd'otO
in order to do so had to cross the line at the station' 000
had made scarcely three paces when one of the fast torS
came along, The driver saw the danger the poor or e:010
was in and attempted to stop the train, but he vrt's,ll. Bide,
to do so in time, and the buffer struck her on t'
00 #e
hurlirg her some distance. The wheels of the ono
carriages then passed over her, literally cutting I* 15
pieces. The mangled remains were gathered up and',
in a room until the inquest is held. torus!
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