A sporting trip through Abyssinia : a narrative of a nine months' journey from the plains of the Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of the natives . to-night, and I will giveyou a house to sleep in and food for your men andyourself. Thanking him, I bowed myself out, and wasled by a side-door into the south side of the sacredgrove. Here we had to leave all our rifles, for no onemay carry arms inside the sanctuary ; nor can anycriminal be taken from its precincts, no matter whatthe crime may be ; if he can on
A sporting trip through Abyssinia : a narrative of a nine months' journey from the plains of the Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of the natives . to-night, and I will giveyou a house to sleep in and food for your men andyourself. Thanking him, I bowed myself out, and wasled by a side-door into the south side of the sacredgrove. Here we had to leave all our rifles, for no onemay carry arms inside the sanctuary ; nor can anycriminal be taken from its precincts, no matter whatthe crime may be ; if he can once gain the ghedein heis safe from justice, so long as he remains there. The original church, which guarded the true arkbrought from Jerusalem by Menelik, son of the Queenof Sheba, was destroyed in 1526 by Muhamed Granye,King of Adel, when he overran and nearly conqueredAbyssinia. According to Alvarez it was very large, and 4o6 A SPORTING TRIP THROUGH ABYSSINIA had five naves or aisles of a good width and great length,besides a choir, and was vaulted above. The presentchurch, built after the fall of Granye and the expulsionof his hordes by the Portuguese, shows unmistakabletraces of European influence in its style. It stands on. AxuM, THE Resting Place of the True Ark. a raised platform surrounded by a low wall, and isapproached by two flights of steps, the lower one con-sisting of ten steps, i8o feet in length, the upper one ofeight steps, 36 feet in length, with an interval of 16 feetbetween the two; on either side of the upper flightthere runs a low, battlemented wall, dividing off thespace immediately around the church from the restof the enclosure. The building is oblong in shape,measuring 48 feet across the front and 108 feet inlength ; the walls are of rough stone, 35 feet high andcastellated along the top ; a small, square tower leadsto the roof, which is flat. Across the whole width of A CHURCH SERVICE 407 the front runs a kind of portico, or open vestibule, theroof su
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