Word: abyssinians
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Whereupon the British Government let it be known that it would permit no nation other than itself to build the dam, holding that it had power to prevent the undertaking by virtue of the Anglo-Abyssinian Treaty of 1902, signed with Negusa Nagasth (King of Kings) Menelik...
...speed through this maze of humor, we will light upon the second part of the book with great relish. The author has conveniently, though perhaps not wisely, divided into two sections the story of his wanderings up the valley of the Dinder River into the foothills of the Abyssinian border. The first he uses to question the reader and himself on "Why do men do it?; the second to answer that question. Paris, we find, has its lures, but the call to "go somewhere," has also and the lures of the latter are apparently greater for we find ourselves wandering...
...Africa, Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson arrived in Manhattan a fortnight ago with 200,000 feet of film and 7,000 still pictures for the American Museum of Natural History. Headquarters for their three-and-a-half-year's animal observations were on the shores of a lake on the Abyssinian border, which they named Lake Paradise...
...soon hopeless spinsters, Abyssinian slaves, beggars and poor cousins of Mohammed leaked it out that his vigils were to confer with the angel Gabriel, who was repeatedly confiding that of the sundry gods then worshiped in Arabia, Allah was the only god and he, Mohammed, was His rasul (prophet). The powerful Koreish clan in Mecca scowled. Mohammed's friends, now dubbed Moslems (traitors) found it best to keep his revelations secret. It was four years before their number was great enough for him to broach his mission openly in Mecca...
Since Abyssinia is impotent to take action against Britain or Italy the taking of Abyssinian decisions seems likely to proceed without momentous effect...