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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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passage between high walls leads to theAderash or great hall. Facing the clock (which haslong ceased to go) is the hall of audience, the open frontof which is raised some height above the ground andapproached by two wooden staircases. The room is about 20 feet square. Towards the back,on the left, a private exit opens on to a flight of steps ; atthe bottom of this a path leads past several terraces,which were being laid out with flower-beds and fountains,to the private apartments of the palace. In generalaspect this building resembles a Swiss chalet, while theornamentation — more especially the wood-carving—isdistinctly Indian in style. It is of octagonal form, andtwo storeys high ; round the upper one runs a partlyclosed-in balcony, which, towards the east, is connectedby a covered gallery with an unfinished stone tower.The Empresss apartments are situated on the southernside of the main portion and include a square summer-house, built upon an artificial mound, so as to be on the
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CHAP. X VISIT THE EMPEROR 97 same level as the first floor ; the privacy of this part ofthe palace is ensured by high stone walls built out fromthe main building. Returning to the main entrance gate, and turning tothe north-east, we pass on the left a series of yards, inwhich are situated the different workshops, including theblacksmiths and carpenters, also stores of all sorts ; nextthese comes the brew-house, where all the tej, tala, andaraki are prepared for the royal household. Close to thisstands the largest store-house—a stone building of twofloors, roofed with tiles ; in this are kept the Emperorsmore perishable treasures. Beyond lies the woodyard,filled with beautifully built stacks of fuel and thatching-grass, besides piles of building timber. On the right liethe royal gardens, containing many European fruit-treesand vegetables of all sorts; in these, it is said, theEmipress takes a special interest. It is, presumably,the narrow steep paths of this garden that an imagina-ti

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