Excerpt from The Story of the Captives: A Narrative of the Events of Mr. Rassam's Mission to Abyssinia For instead of allowing Mr. Bassam to select his own route, or pointing out to him the shortest and best, he required him to go by Metemma (a caravan sta tion, situated on the extreme west of Abyssinia, almost on the Nubian frontier), involving a detour of three or four hundred miles. When such was the treatment experienced by the Mission at its outset, we can express no surprise at its results. About the Publisher ...
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Excerpt from The Story of the Captives: A Narrative of the Events of Mr. Rassam's Mission to Abyssinia For instead of allowing Mr. Bassam to select his own route, or pointing out to him the shortest and best, he required him to go by Metemma (a caravan sta tion, situated on the extreme west of Abyssinia, almost on the Nubian frontier), involving a detour of three or four hundred miles. When such was the treatment experienced by the Mission at its outset, we can express no surprise at its results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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