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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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suspected me of the universal cupidity which marks
us all, and felt that even Menelik's passport was not
sufficient warrant for permitting a white man to
enter territory theretofore unknown to our race.
Fearing to contravene the King's authority, con-
cerned because I insisted upon going to a village
which to me was only the outpost of an unknown
territory, but to him was known as a native gold
market, he finally resorted to deception, telling me
of impossible trails and of the fearsome Shankalis,
not yet thoroughly subdued, he said, by Abyssinian
arms. "I love you as a brother," said he; "you
tell me that you have a wife and children whom you
love; then for your sake and for theirs, I tell you,
do not go to Gomer." He furnished me with an
intelligent guide—and evidently told him to lead
me away from the desired village.
Fortunately, the map and compass showed me
that we were being drifted north instead of properly
to the south; the guide repeated the stories of im-
possible roads, then when I persisted he yielded and
looked troubled. About this time came two run-
ners, Jewish-looking Abyssinians, I remember, an-
nouncing that, wherever I may have been thus far
taken by the guide, I was to now know that I
should go where I chose, and not where the guide
willed. The "Duke" had probably had time to re-
ceive assurances from Menelik that he really meant
me to go anywhere along the Blue Nile. Then the
whole thing came out. We reached Gomer by some
of the best trails that fell to me in Africa. There
were no threatening Shankalis, but the natives were
trading gold in the sky-covered market, filling the
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