Word: abyssinia
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...style himself Guillermo Enrique Eliseo, died in Mexico City. Mr. Ellis was one of the most remarkable men who ever acted as agent for the State Department. He was known chiefly for the famous incident in which he delivered a commercial Treaty from this country to King Menelik of Abyssinia. But his unusual history began much earlier...
Then, in 1904, came the Abyssinia affair. He desired, it is declared, to become King of Abyssinia. He induced the State Department to draw up a Treaty of Amity and Commerce with King Menelik. Kent J. Loomis, brother of the then Assistant Secretary of State (under President Roosevelt) was commissioned to take the treaty to Abyssinia. Ellis accompanied him. Aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II in the English Channel Loomis disappeared. His body was later washed up on the English coast...
Ellis went on, and delivered the treaty to King Menelik. He gave the King heavily jeweled saddles and other gorgeous presents. In return Menelik made him Duke of Harrar and Hawash, a duchy of 1,600,000 acres in extent. But if he had plans to exploit Abyssinia, they came to naught. He returned to the U. S. and had a home at Mt. Vernon, N. Y., still maintaining his interests in Mexico. In 1903 he had married Ida Lefferts Sherwood, and at his death left her and four sons, Guillermo Enrique, Jr., Carlos Sherwood, Porfirio Diaz and Sherwood...
...Some very great man is riding out today,' I thought to myself. . . . A little group riding together now came in the midst of the crowd. . . . Yes, it most certainly was, His Highness, Ras Taffari himself, the ruler of Abyssinia...
...Taffari is not the Emperor of Abyssinia, but the heir to the throne. The nominal ruler of the land is Empress Waizern Zauditu (Ras Taffari is her second cousin). She was proclaimed the Empress of Abyssinia in September, 1916, after her nephew, Lij Yasu, was deposed by public proclamation. The Empress was crowned at Addis Abbaba, capital of Abyssinia, Feb. 11, 1917. The Empress keeps herself very much in the background and the affairs of the State are thus largely in the hands of Ras Taffari...