comnenced

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The baggage having at length been consigned to the shoulders of six hundred grumbling Moslem porters for here the camel, from the steepness of the hills, was useless and forming a line, which extended upwards of a mile, the embassy, on the morning of the 17th, comnenced the ascent of the Abyssinian Alps; the flutes again played, the wild warriors of the escort again chanted their songs.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844