. Europe in Africa in the nineteenth century . one of her husbands rebellious chiefs. Hernearest relatives were still captives in his prisons. She hadmarried Theodore against her will, but having become hiswife, she was said, by report in Magdala, to have been hisguardian angel. Theodore left one son by this lady, abright little boy eight years old, named Alamaio. Motherand child, with all their household, were placed at once underCaptain Speedys protection. The poor lady, however,died on her way to the coast; and her little son was takento Bombay, to be carefully educated, but he had inherite
. Europe in Africa in the nineteenth century . one of her husbands rebellious chiefs. Hernearest relatives were still captives in his prisons. She hadmarried Theodore against her will, but having become hiswife, she was said, by report in Magdala, to have been hisguardian angel. Theodore left one son by this lady, abright little boy eight years old, named Alamaio. Motherand child, with all their household, were placed at once underCaptain Speedys protection. The poor lady, however,died on her way to the coast; and her little son was takento Bombay, to be carefully educated, but he had inheritedhis mothers malady, and died before he reached manhood. The empress was consulted as to her husbands only expressed a wish that the prayers of his ownchurch might be read over him by his own chaplain. Thefuneral was a very simple one. The body, which had beenstripped and exposed to the gaze and the jeers of the soldiersfor some hours, was decently swathed in silken robes, pre-paratory to burial. A photograph was taken of the dead. GENERAL SIR ROBERT NAPIER. THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA. 245 emperor, and a post-mortem examination was held, bywhich it was ascertained that Theodore had received nowound from any English rifle but a slight scratch on the leg. The next question to be determined was, what should bedone with Magdala and its two outpost stations, Fuhla andSelasse. They were offered to a chief who had renderedconsiderable assistance to the English, but he declinedthem. It was then that two rival Mohammedan queens,the heads of Gallo tribes, Mastervit and Walkeit, came toSir Robert to press on him their claims to Magdala. Itwas decided in the end to burn and destroy all buildings onthe mountain heights, and leave them bare, to be occupiedby whosoever chose to take possession of them. On the march of the army back to the coast, as it passedthrough Tigre, the soldiers were received by people whocame out to meet them, dancing and singing the Psalmsof David. A knowledge o
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