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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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hough quite unreasonable. They had then time to inspect their stores, andhere the first and last evidence of ill-will becameevident. Wells, who was supervising the arrangement ofthe stores into mule loads, noticed that the boysseemed to handle the cases containing two large tinsof petrol with surprising ease. He walked over tosee for himself, and then called out to Bentley : I say, sir, theres something seriously wrong here,or all that scrub hewing has made my arms preciousstrong, and he swung a case aloft in one hand. It did not take them long to discover that nailshad been driven into every case but four, and that,with the exception of these four, all the petrol hadleaked out into the sand. Bentley had reason to begrateful for the friendly hint that he had receivedat Djibouti and which had caused him to alter thedenomination and appearance of half of the casescontaining petrol, which were now standing un-harmed amid the food supplies. Nevertheless, he placed Wells with the boys as i
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