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Title: A sporting trip through Abyssinia : a narrative of a nine months' journey from the plains of the Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of the natives
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Powell-Cotton, P. H. G. (Percy Horace Gordon), 1866-1940
Subjects: Hunting -- Ethiopia
Publisher: London : Rowland Ward
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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rating itfrom the church, stands the gimp or castle, a buildingwhich recalls an English church, with a square towerand a very short nave. The castle is two stories inheight, the square tower and nave having battlementedwalls, built of undressed stone and mortar over four feetthick. A pair of round towers, with domed tops rising butlittle above the roof of the main building, protect the twocorners furthest from the castellated square tower. Anoutside staircase, strongly defended by a high wall, leadsto the top storey, where the principal rooms are situated.A circular stair in one of the round towers gives accessto the roof, which, as well as the floors, is of concretelaid over saw-cut beams. The windows and doorwaysare arched and enriched by red-brown bricks, which areas good now as the day they were put up. Except wheresome of the beams have given way, and for the absenceof doors and windows, the castle is still as strong as ever.The natives told me that a large amount of treasure and
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CHAP. XXVII BRUCES DESCRIPTION 307 supplies had been stored in the castle in the belief thatit could resist all the efforts of the Dervishes ; but itsdefenders tamely surrendered, and everything was looted. From this place we crossed over to the great wallwhich encircles the principal group of royal dwellings.The wall here was, I judged, some 16 feet high, flankedon the east by a square guard-house, and on the west bya pepper-box tower. Its total length was about 200 feet,a third of which, in the centre, forms part of the mainwall of the palace of Yasous 11.^ Concerning the decoration of this building, Brucegives the following details :— In 1736, Yasous II., who was engaged in building himself apalace, welcomed to his capital a party of Christians, who had fledfrom a massacre at Smyrna and were on their way to India, but,missing the monsoon, had landed nearly penniless at Massowah.Twelve of them were silversmiths, very excellent in that fine w-orkcalled fiUigrane. ... By the hands o

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