To Menelek in a motor-car . ADDIS-ABABA. Mr. T. B. Hohler. Charge dAffaires. who introduced the car to the Menelek leaving Palace to inspect the car (See page 263.) TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR them, a caravan road ran towards the capital, and,therefore, once they had cut themselves out of thedense vegetation surrounding the river, they madetheir way diagonally across country to strike thisroad ; for even if they did not actually make useof it, because of the probably crowded traffic, andthe impossibility of using dynamite when wanted,it would at any rate dir
To Menelek in a motor-car . ADDIS-ABABA. Mr. T. B. Hohler. Charge dAffaires. who introduced the car to the Menelek leaving Palace to inspect the car (See page 263.) TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR them, a caravan road ran towards the capital, and,therefore, once they had cut themselves out of thedense vegetation surrounding the river, they madetheir way diagonally across country to strike thisroad ; for even if they did not actually make useof it, because of the probably crowded traffic, andthe impossibility of using dynamite when wanted,it would at any rate direct them to the guard-house,to which they had asked that their petrol might be sent. After the Gibbi river the going was really appre-ciably easier, and at times they were actually ableto leave their mules behind for a short distance,and had the pleasure of waiting for them at thenext difficult spot. After two days travelling, arunner reached them from Mr. Hohler, who toldthem that orders had been passed that all trafficwas to make way for them, and saying that theywould find the road, as it neared the plateau, fairlyp
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