The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-05-29

In one place there is a mount ofred salt,
which is much used in physic. This is to
be passed over by night, because the heat is
so violent in the day that travellers and
beasts are stifed and the very shoes parch
up as if they were laid on burning Goals
We entered upon it at three in the after
noon, and it pleased God that the sun clou-
ded, which the renegade Moor attributed
to his prayers"
Mr.. Dufton says that abb Addy in Tenn
bien sis the last place where the salt of Am
hara is taken as money. The nearer one
gets to the coast, where are the salt mines,
of course the less is the value of the mine
raj and Tigre cotton takes its place as
medium of exchange"
MILITARY STRENGTH OF ABYssINIA.
1t is very difficult to estimate the mill
tary strength of a country like Abyssinia,
as, from what has been before stated of the
nature of the government, it will be seen
that the forces which a sovereign of Abys-
sinia can bring into the field will depend
very much upon his own personal character
and upon the number of chiefs over whom
he has any influence
In memorandum communicated by the
Foreign Office to the Royal Geographical
Society of England in 1866, there is the
following paragraph bearing upon this sub
ject =
"The immediate troops of the Ras con-
sist of a number of petty chiefs, governing
one, two or more villages, who initiate, as
far as they dare, the independence of the
greater barons, and who take the field when
called on with five hundred men, according
to their means. Besides these, who are nu-
merous, the Ras has his matchbox men, and
four or five bands of rude and disorderly
soldiery, his guards. From the low sys-
TEN of government, and the manner of pay
ing these men by quartering them on the
country people, with instructions to levy so
much grain or other property, it may be
supposed that these undisciplined troops,
when at u small distance from the camp,
are almost equally independent Of the Ras,
and frequently are simply organized bands
of robbers, &c.
KINGTHEoDoRE.
HIS PEDIGREE TRACED BY HFMsELF.
The following is King Theodores pedi-
gree, according to his own account, given
just before the English invasion -
PROCLAMATION.
In the name of the Father, and of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost, one God
The King of Kings, Theodore, created by
the Trinity its servant, installed by it and
made Prince to his children given to him
by God and to all the Franks (Europeans)
by your God and the God of your friend
Theodore, who appeared to Moses on
Mount Sinai and in the Red Sea, who APP
peared to Joshua at Jericho, who through
his servant Samuel anointed Saul when he
was seeking the asses that were lost, who,
when Saul turned from his Creator, COM
manded Saul to annoint David.
Solomon was King after David, accord
ing to the word of the prophet and of his
father, Notwithstanding that Adonias (Ad-
onijah), against the will of God, was pro-
claimed King by the people and obtained
favor in their sight. Solomon, by the
Queen of Axyeb the southeasD, begat
Menilek, who became King of Ethiopia
From Menilek down to the dynasty of the
Gallas, all the kings were stageplayers (az-
marD, who sought from God neither wis
dom nor strength but with His help the
means of raising up the empire were found
when God chose me, His servant to be
king. My countrymen said, "The river is
dried up its bed is empty y and they in
suited me because my mother was poor,
and called me the son of a beggar. But
the Turks knew the greatness of my father,
who made them his tributaries, as far as
the frontiers of Egypt and to the gates of
their cities. My father and my mother de-
scended from David and Solomon, and
they are also of the seed of Abraham, the
servant of God. Now, those who insulted
me with the name of beggars son are
themselves beggars, and beg for their daily
n I =,
nor power can save from ruin. Nev-
ertheless, as God said unto Adam, sin the
sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread" it
IS necessary not to fall into slothfulness.-
But it is needless for me to give you this
advice for as the proverb says, "speak not
of wisdom to the sage, neither cut the food
of lion" There is nothing powerful in
the world. Many have had mortars and
cannons in abundance, and nevertheless
have succumbed. Napoleon had myriads
of them, yet he died conquered, after having
subiugated the Franks. Nicholas, Empe-
ror of the Muscovites, possessed them in
abundance, and was vanquished by the
French, the English, and the Turks, and
died without having accomplished the de-
sire of his heart.
If in your countries you meet with any
VI tlc DIlSdult NcSuSJc WuO
shall say, like the traitors of this country,
that Ethiopia is governed by the son of a
beggar, wager with them field covered
with gold that 1, the present Emperor, am
on the throne of my fathers, Abraham and
David, and bring them here to be con-
fronted with me. 1t is God shat hath put
down the mighty from their seats, and hath
exalted them of low degree"
THE CAPTIvEs-NAMEs AND NATIoNALI-
TIES OF THE LIBERATED EUROPEANS
OTHER EUROPEANS IN THE EMPLOY OF
THE LATE KING.
The following is return to an address
of the British House of Commons, dated
November 81, 1867, for return of the
names, nationalities and occupations, and
length of residence of the several prison
ers in Abyssinia, to release whom a mill
tary force is proceeding to Abyssinia; to-
gether with a return (if obtainable) of the
Europeans not prisoners, in the service of
the Emperor Theodorus -
G. D. Cameron (British) her Majesty's
! Consul at Massowah, arrived at Gondar,
June %, 1869; L. Kerans British), Secre-
tary, to Consul Cameron, supposed to have
accompanied Consul Cameron; r. Nickel
vey (British), servant to Consul Cameron,
supposed to have accompanied do. J.
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