This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... MAGDALA CHAPTER I A BRITISH CAMP--INTRODUCTORY A Most extraordinary and novel sight presented itself to me as I landed upon the bunder at Zoulla. Thousands of half-naked coolies were shouting and chanting a barbaric song while they worked under as hot a sun as ever blazed in the tropics, and hundreds ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... MAGDALA CHAPTER I A BRITISH CAMP--INTRODUCTORY A Most extraordinary and novel sight presented itself to me as I landed upon the bunder at Zoulla. Thousands of half-naked coolies were shouting and chanting a barbaric song while they worked under as hot a sun as ever blazed in the tropics, and hundreds of uniformed superintendents, armed with long courbaches, were coercing the labourers under their charge to work. The braying of hundreds of donkeys, the neighing of horses, the whinnying of mules, the lowing of thirsty kine, the shrill shriek of two anomalous locomotives, the noisy roll of rickety cars as they thundered to and fro, caused the scene to appear at the first impression as if a whole nation had immigrated here, and were about to plant a great city on the fervid beach of Annesley Bay. The mountainous piles of stores covered with tarpaulins, the long warehouses, with their roofs of brushwood, filled to the utmost with the materiel of war, and the noble bay crowded with majestic transports, steamers, men-of-war, great sailing-packets, tiny tugboats, elegant little yachts, and innumerable Turkish kanjeahs from Mocha, Jeddah, Souakim, and Massowah, flitting about with their swallow-winged sails, only served to heighten the illusion. It will not be out of place to give here an introductory explanation of the events and causes which led to this assemblage of British soldiers on the Zoulla sands. An Abyssinian prophecy, uttered ages ago, and handed down from generation to generation, had gathered strength, until the people had come to believe that the fullness of time had arrived, and grew accustomed to expect a Messiah. It became known to an ambitious young fellow named Kussai, the only son of a widow, a kousso-seller dwelling in...
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