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Updated: June 14, 2025
I led them past Hebron into the south country, and so by the Vale of Eshcol, and over many hills beyond the Pools of Solomon, until my feet brought me to your fire. Here I rest on the way to nowhere." He sat silent, and the four shepherds looked at him with amazement. "It is a bitter tale," said Shama, "and you are a great sinner."
All the savings of years were brought to the chiefs; silver rings and chains the dower and fortune of many a young maiden were added to the newly spun shama of the matron: all were reduced to poverty, and were trembling; though they smiled whilst making the sacrifice of all their worldly goods.
I led them past Hebron into the south country, and so by the Vale of Eshcol, and over many hills beyond the Pools of Solomon, until my feet brought me to your fire. Here I rest on the way to nowhere." He sat silent, and the four shepherds looked at him with amazement. "It is a bitter tale," said Shama, "and you are a great sinner."
Over the hills of Moab a gray flood of dawn rose slowly, and arrows of red shot far up before the sunrise. The shepherds returned full of joy and told what they had seen. "It was even as the angels said unto us," said Shama, "and it must be true. The King of Israel has come. The faithful shall be blessed."
Shama wandered away from it while we slept..... You must go, brother. If Barabbas finds you here he will kill you. Kalus took his brother's hand in his and pressed it to his heart. 'I go to the northern hills. I will kill the half-breed if I can. Goodbye. There was nothing more. He set out.
Having acknowledged with due respect his courteous inquiries, we advanced towards the throne, and delivered into his hands the letter from her Majesty the Queen. The Emperor received it civilly, and told us to sit down on the splendid carpets that covered the ground. The Emperor was seated on an alga, wrapped up to the eyes in a shama, the sign of greatness and of power in Abyssinia.
Bare-headed, the shama girded in token of respect, he delivered the Imperial message of welcome, translated into Arabic by Samuel, who stood by him, and whose finely chiselled features and intellectual countenance at once proclaimed his superiority over the ignorant Abyssinian.
His brother had seen him. Fighting the current, Kalus again found his footing among the northern shallows, then waded in stubbornly. He dropped his sword on the bank and went to the body of Shama, still half in the water, and lifted and carried it gently to the root-covered ground beneath a willow. Setting it down as he would his own child to sleep, he stood back. He could not escape the pain.
'The sound of their laughter, he began again, his eyes welling. The wail of newborn life. . .would be such blessed relief from the dry, sterile sound of our own voices. At this Kalus eyes' misted as well, remembering Shama, and the Child on the shore. 'I would give everything I have to hear it, he said, surprised by his own words, and the thoughts that lay behind them.
The Emperor was dressed very simply: the only difference in his attire from the chief in attendance standing some ten yards on his side, was in the silk border of his shama: he held a spear in his hand, and two long pistols were fixed in his belt.
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