The New York herald., 1869-02-22
ABYSsINIA.


Revisit OF Our Special Correspondent 20
AAyssinn-lIecting with an Acquaintance :
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 10 Zouila-Koonny.
iee-DesoIation of tho sanatnrium-Journcy
10 Sooroo and Undei Welis-1he Grave Of
Henry Dufton-Arrivnl Mt Rayray-Guddy-
Journey 10 Senufe-ssNecdcrkrald,, alias
ssNew York Heraid,'-PoiitIcal News
Prince Kussai-Policy and Conduct-Wag-
shum Gebazye-Var Immincnt Between
Kussal and Gobaxye-A New Rival.
MAssowAM, Abyssinia, Dec. 10, 1868.
Among the many surmises and suggestions that
have been made respecting the future veal Of Abys-
sna there is not one Of them SO near the truth as
that which viii be found In one Of the June numocrs
OF the NEW YORK HERALD. wherein it speaks Of
wagshum Gobazye as the hkeliest successor to the
throne Of Ethiopia. wagsnum Gobazye has had his
brief day. however, and somewhat slow, pining
dissolution Is his now, other more warliKe chiefs
having risen their daring neads In y bowent circle
round afout him.
Sailing from Aden In an Arab kanjeab, In about
five days arrived at Massowah Eere found all
sorts OF people-soders merchants, consuls parbas.
ex-Abyssinan interpreters. and host Of pseudony
mously titled individuals their combined efforts
having tendency to redeem the large amount OF
specie alioa in Abyssnia-the liberal bailings, It
were, OF the cumbrons and costly crusade which
lately left Ethiopian Shores never to return. Among
the many OF these quidnuncs in this excessively
hot and dirty pesteatlal little port of the Egyptians.
l discovered at his ease, at an inn. while inhang
the fumes from Persian calioub, Peter Borce, one
OF the interpreters who was with us through the
campaign. Dusky Peter recognized me at once, and
like acquaintances meeting after long separation
we proceeded to pump each others arms and to
embrace-fervor having risen TO that pitch
uttering our 'mosholabes' and 'sesmariadeSs''
like true Orientalsts. From the khan stroled
the dar&-eyei dign:ed Arabs to gaze ut the unusul
phenomenon Of two Christians embracing; and could
they have made themselves understood very proba-
bly, they would have inquired about my co,lfferes at
the HERALD Office, which would have been source
of infinite satisfaction to all concerned. Our mutual
congratulations over, we proceeded together TO our
khan, where, after wetting his lips with peptic
decoctlon, tried to bargain with Peter to take me
to Zoulla and Senate lie would not charge me for
anything; he would like my company capitally. Was
/ not OF Old his warmest friend, when Telamonan
Ajax Speedy tthe giant interpreter for the English
army, formerly commander-in-chef of Theodores
army and myself used quar- huge hornfus of that
delicious compound OF fermented honey and arrack?
Certainly was, and many is the time when our en-
thusiasm and friendship for the whole army OF red
coats and solar topees rose to the episram matte
fervor and we shouted In loudest strains, victory
or DEATH" Besides he, Peter was about journeying
to Axum, and from Axum he intended to 60 to
Lallibullan, the Jerusalem Of Abyssina and Mecca
OF Ethiopia. So, without much ado, two days
afterwards we lett Massowah, travelling southward
for Zoulla.
Z0ulla anyone woud have known II who had
been there had read the descriptions OF Its
Gehenna heat and Tophet aridty zoulla was the
same not changed In least except in Its external
aspect No long arrays OF snowy bell tents greeted
our Visions and no ..brandy and cool, sparkling
soda water' hung pensile In the perspective. Tents
had vanished, they had sllently stolen away'' like
dream without q particle OF definite circumstance
attached to their long resting place; the brandy and
soda water that had been drank by the thousand
bottles had long since burst their condncments and
evaporated into the thnnest ether, and the abdomi-
dOus proportions and jovia faces with the legiOns
0fquizzng glasses had also somehow unaccountaby
dissolved themselves into duh i0rgetiulness Of the
scenes which once knew them, and trooped away
over the horizon Of the azure waters OF the Egyptian
sea; but tenacious memory cung with its inherent
poweru @ s peoped the sanay 1s oeaes
OF Zouila with an army OF crimson-coated officers,
who looked at us with astonishcd quzzing glasses
and expanded lips All these were well known
characteristics OF them, and was beginning to
open my mouth 70 twlt them with sharp words,
when 10 my horse stumbled ana was precipitated
s0merseting In the air, and the Illusion vanished.
But the blue Anncs.ey Bay was stl here reality,
separating the mainland from the island OF Dessee.
A few Turkish kanjeabs and Arab xebecs re-
placed the mammoth meets or Old England, aud the
beach aud the bunders still intact as they when
bales and piles OF the imported war material COW
cred them, were now but landing places FOR foul
mouthed, Guttural-v0ced Arabs who had come
hither to endeavor to regain. by the sharpes, Of
trades few OF the dollars stil left in the country
by the late expedition. ON tho low shores stood bur
two Of the brushwooi army warehouses, and these
were IN O sad, dilapidaied condition. Scattered
around were the remnants oil the multitudinous
bazaars and the debris OF once busy community.
There were only three Eur0pcan-looking buildings.
inhabited by few French merchants, who CHING to
the Place as II ioath TO leave It, They do, however,
sell Bombay cezans Striped cotton cloths used bl
the Dolbay nativesl and the crimson striped cotton
robes worn BY the 6etu monde OF Ethiopian society.
In return they purchase panther skins and ivory.
and medicinal plants, such as the kourso-a
yermiugal pant-aad gum arabic, which the
natives extract from the acacia tree. The rail-
road 10 koomayee is exactly the English
lett IL; but the cars and locomotives have been
shipped or long snce lew wheels OF Maltese
carts are scattered about here and there, enhancing
the look OF desolntion which the place wears. one
or two telegraph poles are still upright, for wonder,
tue natives not having made ihelr minds up that
they have right 10 them because OF the snarp shot
that ratified about their ears wen a company Of the
Irish regiment started or IN pursuit OF the uiaraud
ing gang of Snoives who murdered Af. Henry Duf-
ton, the Abyssiniln traveller.
From zoalla my dusky chapcrone and myself
started for the sanatarlum aud principal depot oi
the Engiisn-koomasee. II has now resolved Itself
Int0 Its own former drcary solitude. The Wild AMI
mas relieved OF their awe, cngendered by the pres
ence OF man. have come back TO their deserted
dens, and make the gloom OF the great pass
SUI more hideous BY their melancholy cries.
and the ''pace that knew It knoweth it more"
Thorns and bramblcs have shot NJ spontaneously
In the parade ground netties aud briers In abaIl-
dance around the place of the former headquarters.
Tue glorious camp "a now nabltation Tor Wild
bab0ons. The beasts OF the Boulld plain meet with
the beasts OF the mountains: the .'panther crieth
his mate the screech owl for his fellow" the cor
morant and the Egyptian vuture tnephron ptrcnop-
ienl possesseth It, the upupa and the gorgeous
cockatoo tri IN union their notes, and the hyena
and The lackal dwell therein. 'sThe wilderness and
the solitary place glad OF the absence OF men, and
te desert " rejoicing and blossoning as The roseu
Ul the immense mountains OF stores nothing s left
TO denote OF them ever having been therc-not even
STRAY rayeng OF gunny bag. What the English
dld not take the Philo-Shohoes did. and what the
snohoes left the eagles aud the ravens picked 10
garnish their nests with. The open quadrangle be.
fore the hospital and principal quarters OF the men
mas nothing left Of It's former spruce aud neat ap-
pearance. The terrific debanch OF the last rainy
season has covered 1t with the debris Of the mOan-
talns. Az Jotted down some notes the pale, verb
cai sunshine lit up the egglDJuchuit to the Great
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