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Title: To Menelek in a motor-car
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Hallé, Clifford Menelek II, Negus of Ethiopia, 1844-1913
Subjects: Ethiopia -- Description and travel Somalia -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Hurst and Blackett
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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striker in England, he has impressed a veryacute people with the energy and enterprise of Englishmen,and the ingenuity and strength of their machinery. Thosethat come after him to seek opportunities for developingthe country or constructing works will find their prestigeenhanced by the pluck and endurance of a journey of thissort. A tradition soon gathers round any performance thatimpresses the imagination of such a people; sometimes,indeed, in a direction that would escape the observer of the XV INTRODUCTION obvious only. The campaign of 68 against Theodore isnot only remembered by its important results—they are tooaccustomed to centuries of fighting; but what has been handeddown as something wonderful about the invasion is the factthat the British Army, passing victoriously through a countrypractically conquered, paid for such supplies, &c., that theytook. The honesty of Englishmen was established forall time. HERBERT WELD-BLUNDELL. Queen s College, Oxford. XVI > ■ > .
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> J >. , . • J , * TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY Bentleys previous record—Inception of the idea of the trip and prepara-tions—Wells—The start—The passenger—Across France—The dockstrike—Off at last. AT the end of April, in the year 19075 BedeBentley arrived home in England after anabsence of several years, during which time hehad served throughout the South African war, hadtaken part in two expeditions in Somaliland, betweenwhich he returned to Central Africa, trading andexploring, found his way to Egypt and worked onthe Nile irrigation works ; then, at the request of anewspaper, went as special correspondent to inquireinto the system of trading on the West coast ; and,finally, after a little experience of stock farming inAustralia, and a couple of visits to India, felt thenecessity of a rest and the recuperating effect ofa voyage home, as, of several wounds, one in particularwas causing him considerable pain and annoyance. The result of the voy

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