New-York tribune., 1867-08-29
LAND HOf AND now
BY TUMMUs CARNLE.

Courage my fr1endsl For In this thick, WeIVerlne'
chaos come again Of society over which 40 laVoiy
pftor my fashion uttered prophetic shrieks uo aO
last discern something which TO my eyes Nthough III
deed in these days no little damaged IN the primo
f,cpJtv of ayes the seeing faculty, namely seems
possible star-ray or other CLEAN of light; eyen ltmay
be more than of stars from the moon perhaps OF as
81 NAV unluckily prove from some wandering Gomez,
shaking its disastrous hair most disheveledy anu
distraetedly over this sad world of oursl 0oni'y
then. and no grateful gracious starl "nlcn yoO @
fondy and as hope not fOOlishly VIII sun
St to be
Small profit indeed, if after thirty years more VI
less spent on my part in hystelcal' uelIiou' NuAo
shreking; shTieling ever growing en' mo .taI.
sb,iller with earpiercing din as of unlntermltDeu
cot oo,t drumming TO no tune buzz as of innumer-
able sawa circular or other or it may be, more IKE
(for this never heard save by queer, nigger-mln-
streI banjoimitationl the harsh, monotonOus love
cry Of the American, or what is left of American
@katy-did' Ia species of what you call clcada-oug Oh
rreen erig singing his love song in no meillnuouS
Anacreontic-wise but rather as If one np-saW were
20 sneak it's passion TO another rpSaw ;-small prOht
then if this labor of mine shrieking night and day.
were not to meet with some reward IT, indeed thls
long lung-pay which at last begins to be bore TO
ma and has, learn from those dearest to me- long
into the empyrean with all other human and inhu-
man cries this. the nosiest of all earthly noises
and make an end every way useless. and with no re-
ward to speak Of! wv
From This fate il seems unless public and private
report las may well happen in these days. be noJhng
Int lies and emptiness. l am to be exempt as 1ailS
10 few persons in our time. To me ever propheSy-
ing" i'm the true sense Of that word, speaking De-
thor and CnrnIW
no louder nor more ear-piercing shrek than mine
has thus far, sounded in the world Ito me, thus
prophesying has come good word from over seas
from far-away Africa in short ;-gratefuest tidings
"a of soft bloom scented honey with color as OF
amber gold dropping into the mouth from spoon Oh
silver after btterest, sOul-sickening dose OF satS-
and-senna, or whatever hell-brOth, brewed by So
called medical men with their pretended Art OF Heal
ingl Gratefuest tdings, say, and Of this nature
".
This new light as of rOsy-fngered morning, or a
yertabe -theEast, has burst on us out OF no
other place than Abyssnia where as is by reoentest
events most plainly shown to Engishmen and the
whole world of men not English there is now living
true king oremperor-Emperor OF TheOdorus thenameD by
which we are coming to know him-Emperor. indeed,
but not of the much talking Gttle-doing, Boulogne
or coup d6tat sort, or any SORT may say at pres
ant known in Europe; true king, L call him,
Ersi dyJoajy, ruler OF manager of men as read IN
Homer Homer himself lover of such men as also
am lover and all other best and greatest English
men, Ruskin, Kingsley, Tupper, Tennyson, and the
rest We find this Theodorus truly to his people
and TO the world "gft-Of-G 6 GOd"-9s05 65ps')
alght shining out of darkness rather into dark
ness as may truly be said,-into Europe into En-
gland Also this last verify horror of great darkness
A cheerful light this TheOdOrus beaming from the
,4o;,,r Pod
ranoan Seas PharOs lofty star-bright, unquench-
able, true lighthouse as in our English tongue
this word Pharos has now got itself translated
v.
This land of Abyssina as it has been described to
me by friend who at one time sOjourned there, and
from whom now come to me these messages sounding
Of hope and cheer lis land which in few words
one may thus figure to those who have not seen it.
A region not mountainous 80 much as wholly lofty,
lifted up the central parts of it such altitude that
aelightfulest GOODNESS abides there, deightfuest
cooness look you close upon the skirts of the Equate
ral belt; mild airs of paradise blowing soft. and
scented with odors from nearlying arabia and also
when the wind favors with Odors from Persian
gardens orange-groves and the like whatever de-
eotable scents are in this generally ill-smellng and
musty world of ours blow over this domain do
nam, indeed. chiefly odorous, if one asks its main
quality, where even the animals lend their share ;
whose legs even (bOuntifu nature not having where
else 10 deposit her teemng abundance the natives
do scrape musk in plenty, having first with eonsd-
erable difficulty caught the civet-cat not inclined it
seems to be caught!
VI
The center OF mid-part of this land of Abyssinia
being SUCH one is easily moved to wonder that so
few travellers wander thther; a region tempting
enough it may be thought, dwellers in London with
Its profuse rains plentfuly charged with SCOT and
mephitis washing in unending swash all putrid, dis
gushing Vn-deectable street and other filth into the
Thames as into a vast sewer smelling TO Heaven; the
Thames not beautiful here nor pastoral but as say,
sewer and uncleanest of sewers too! To escape
thence into Abyssinia my friends! Into Abyssinia
or elsewhere, in Gods name! That thing truly de-
sirable but alas so far as Abyssinia is concerned,
not possible but, rather impossibe As our AmeTi-
can cousins would say tf indeed, there be cousins
Of ours left in that bedeved country cousins Of
ours and not merely nggers. as am tOldl-as these
cousins of ours if there were such, would say" 1t
can't be didw For Abyssinia is encrcled on three
sides by re-belt Of orrid desert desolate belt of
country of the srangest sort lying thckcOyered as
it does fifty miles wide, and from the sea round to
the sea again. with cObble stones in heaps piled one
on the other; strange conformation, not seen else
where on this planet and not by any theory under
friend Mr. Ruskin who understands everything, and
will, on five minutes notice, undertake to explain
everything in English of the true Chelsea type; En-
glish learned Of me, mostly.
VII.
Not oobble-stones only, though this indeed were
enough to bak the stoutest but beasts, too, of the
deadliest and implacabest swarm there, surround
Ing this blissfu mid-regiOn, and living they may
thsloose-lying cobble-stone belt. Tigers wolves,