. South of Suez. I/. Revenge of Ahou Boll-Them-Up N Addis-Abeba itself there were rapid andstartKng developments. We suddenly learned that the raiboad hadbeen cut behind us; all means of telegraphiccommunication with the outet world had beensevered; and a large army was advancing uponAddis-Abeba from the north, threatening todestroy the city and anniliilate its occupants, in-cluding the foreign Ministers, who, with a fewexceptions, were the only Europeans within thecity. We spent our time riding, exploring,learning the lay of the land, catching up everyrumour that flew, and preparing for whate
. South of Suez. I/. Revenge of Ahou Boll-Them-Up N Addis-Abeba itself there were rapid andstartKng developments. We suddenly learned that the raiboad hadbeen cut behind us; all means of telegraphiccommunication with the outet world had beensevered; and a large army was advancing uponAddis-Abeba from the north, threatening todestroy the city and anniliilate its occupants, in-cluding the foreign Ministers, who, with a fewexceptions, were the only Europeans within thecity. We spent our time riding, exploring,learning the lay of the land, catching up everyrumour that flew, and preparing for whateverfate might befall us. It came to me, as to many others, as a greatsurprise that an army should be sweeping downvictoriously from the north when the weakPrince had been blotted out of considerationfar to the south-eastward. We had believedthat his father, Ras Mikael, ashamed of the con-duct of his son, had watched his dethronement [87] SOUTH OF SUEZ with apathetic sorrow. Certainly when thenews first came to th
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