The Abyssinian Expedition: arrival at Adigerat of an ambassador from Kassai, King of Tigré, 1868. Engraving of a sketch by Mr. G. A. Henty, (war correspondent). 'The head of the procession consisted of three men blowing upon follows a man of tall stature beating violently upon a tomtom. Next follow the musketeers of the , any stage properties which might come conveniently to large proportion quite incapable of being fired. Next follows the ambassador of the King, on a mule, with gorgeous the tiger rampant, the arms of the gre
The Abyssinian Expedition: arrival at Adigerat of an ambassador from Kassai, King of Tigré, 1868. Engraving of a sketch by Mr. G. A. Henty, (war correspondent). 'The head of the procession consisted of three men blowing upon follows a man of tall stature beating violently upon a tomtom. Next follow the musketeers of the , any stage properties which might come conveniently to large proportion quite incapable of being fired. Next follows the ambassador of the King, on a mule, with gorgeous the tiger rampant, the arms of the great potentate his hair was arranged, as is the manner of the chiefs of his people, in a series of little plaits, which ran in parallel lines from his forehead over the head to the nape of the to the ambassador of the great King rides the Archbishop upon a mule similarly caparisoned. The Archbishop is clothed in absolutely white robes, with turban to the inferior chiefs. These, either from a feeling of modesty, or from a lack of animals, rode two upon each the left is the 33rd Regiment; next to them is the 10th Native Infantry, flanked by the Scinde itself lies in the background'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.
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