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He was ready for a gossip with Royson. "You won't find life quite so lively at Aden as at Massowah," he said. "We are bound for Aden, then?" "Where did you think we was headin' for? Melbourne?" "Well, sir, if I gave any thought to it I inclined more to the belief that we were making for our original destination." "An' where was that?" "A bay somewhere south of us, not far from Perin."
He also undertook to do his best to induce the British Government to restore to King John the crown of King Theodore, which had been carried off after the fall of Magdala. The envoy then returned to Abyssinia, and nothing further took place until Gordon's departure for Massowah in August, when the rumoured plans of Michael and Ras Alula were causing some alarm.
Towards the end of August, shortly after the return of our ill-fated messenger, we wrote again and sent another man: by this time we had abundant proof that Samuel, formerly our introducer, now our gaoler, was completely in our interests; and by his good arrangements the messenger started without any one knowing of it, and managed to reach Massowah with his letter.
During the war, the import of this article from the interior had almost entirely ceased; but even in time of peace, it is not sufficient for the consumption of Djidda; some is, therefore, brought also from Sowakin; but the best sort, and that which is in greatest plenty, comes from Massowah, and is called here Dahlak butter: whole ships' cargoes arrive from thence, the greater part of which is again carried to Mekka.
It has been at war with Egypt, which never got possession of the country as it desired. In 1885 Italy occupied Massowah, though for what purpose was never definitely stated. Three companies of its army were attacked by the Abyssinians, and nearly the whole of them were massacred; but the Italians did not avenge this assault."
At that time the Italians were fighting in Massowah and as an officer of the reserve he could have volunteered for active service at a moment's notice with a terribly good prospect of never coming back alive.
"We have no heavy guns, I admit," said Dick, casting to the winds all thought of leaving the ship under present conditions, "but we have arms and ammunition in plenty to make it hot work for any one in Massowah to stop us once we are ashore." The other sighed, whether on account of his vanished youth or the impracticable nature of the scheme, it is hard to say.
These, with a small hamlet east of Haitoomloo, constitute all the inhabited portions of this sterile region. The next village, Ailat, about twenty miles from Massowah, is built on the first terrace of the Abyssinian range, 600 feet above the level of the sea.
Then Giovanni went to Massowah, and you know the rest. But they were very much in love with each other, and Angela was broken-hearted. She now knew what she had come to find out, and she did not care to rouse his curiosity as to her own share in the story, since no gossip had taken the trouble to enlighten him. 'Has she taken permanent vows? he asked. 'Yes.
The prolonged delay of Mr. Rassam's mission at Massowah without any apparent good results having been achieved, was so contrary to all expectations, that it was at last decided to resort to other means.
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