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2nd Battalion Abyssinia acid admissions and deaths admissions into hospital Admitted Adowa Annual Ratio Antalo appeared Appendix April Arkiko arrived attacked August average barracks Bengal camels camp caravan cause Ceylon cholera Choleraic Diarrhoea Class commenced considerable continued deck Depôt Diarrhoea Died discharged district dysentery encamped Enderta Enthetic epidemic feet foot Gondar Halai hills inches India Integumentary Integumentary System Invalids island isoclinal isoclinal 53 journey Lasta malarial fever Malta March Massowah Mauritius mean strength Medical Officer Miasmatic Diseases miles months morning mortality mountains night o'clock occurred Ophthalmia Orchitis passed Peshawur plain plateau Port Louis prevalent pulse quarters quinine rain reached Regiment river road route Royal Artillery sanitary season Shoa Shoho sick side soldiers station symptoms temperature Tigré Total town traversed trees Umballa urine valley ventilation village wave white troops Windward and Leeward wound
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Side 93 - ... fluid, which the direst necessity could alone have forced down the parched throat, and which, after all, far from alleviating thirst, served materially to augment its insupportable horrors.
Side 91 - No sound broke on the ear: not a ripple played upon the water ; the molten surface of the lake, like burnished steel, lay unruffled by a breeze ; the fierce sky was without a cloud, and the angry sun, like a ball of metal at a white heat, rode triumphant in a full blaze of noontide refulgence, which in sickening glare was darted back on the straining vision of the fainting wayfarer, by the hot sulphury mountains that encircled the still, hollow, basin. A white foam on the shelving shore of the dense...
Side 224 - We encamped at a place called Tubbo, where the mountains are very steep and broken very abruptly into cliffs and precipices. Tubbo was by much the most agreeable station we had seen ; the trees were thick, full of leaves, and gave us abundance of very dark shade. There was a number of many different kinds, so closely planted that they seemed to be intended for natural arbours. Every tree was full of birds, variegated with an infinity of colours, but destitute of song ; others of a more homely and...
Side 15 - Adoua was built in the Grecian or Moorish taste. I own I rather expected to see columns or obelisks, if not an acropolis on some of the neighbouring hills. Judge then of my astonishment when, on arriving at this great city, the capital of one of the most powerful kingdoms of ^Ethiopia, I found nothing but a large straggling village of huts, VOL.
Side 71 - Judge then of my astonishment when, on arriving at this great city, the capital of one of the most powerful kingdoms of ./Ethiopia, I found nothing but a large straggling village of huts, some flat-roofed, but mostly thatched with straw, and the walls of all of them built of rough stones, laid together •with mud, in the rudest possible manner. Being wet, moreover, with the rain, the place presented the most miserably dirty appearance.
Side 93 - ... and beast. Not a drop of fresh water existed within many miles; and, notwithstanding that every human precaution had been taken to secure a supply, by means of skins carried upon camels, the very great extent of most impracticable country to be traversed, which had unavoidably led to the detention of nearly all, added to the difficulty of restraining a multitude maddened by the tortures of burning thirst, rendered the provision quite insufficient ; and during the whole of this appalling day,...
Side 237 - The banks of the Tacazze were covered to the waters edge with tamarisks. ' Beautiful and pleasant, however, as this river is,' says Bruce, ' like every thing created it has its disadvantages. From the falling of the first rains in March, till November, it is death to sleep in the country adjoining to it, both within and without its banks ; the whole inhabitants retire and live in villages on the...
Side 92 - ... vision; and a sickening heaviness in the loaded atmosphere, was enhanced rather than alleviated by the fiery breath of the parching north-westerly wind, which blew without any intermission during the •entire day. The air was inflamed, the sky sparkled, and columns of burning sand, which at quick intervals towered high into the dazzling atmosphere, became so illumined as to appear like tall pillars of fire.
Side 115 - ... in both sides, promised to offer much difficulty and delay in the coming passage. Pensive willows that drooped mournfully over the troubled current, were festooned with recent drift, hanging many feet above the level of the abrupt banks...
Side 235 - ... south-west, it falls in several cataracts, near a hundred feet high, into a narrow valley, through which it makes its way into the Tacazze. Maisbinni, for wild and rude beauties, may compare with any place we had ever seen. This day was the first cloudy one we had met with, or observed this year. The sun was covered for several hours, which announced our being near the large river Tacazze. On the 25th, at seven in the morning, leaving Maisbinni, we continued in our road, shaded with trees of...