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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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J 03< 1 < q: - — 3 c 0 U TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR traveller who assented to this was lucky if he escapedin the end with his life, having been relieved of allhis belongings by the desert tribes with whom thecaravan drivers were in league. Mr. Vorperian and Mr. Michoeledis, the BritishConsul, were indefatigable in their efforts to aidBentley, and eventually, after interviewing everyNegari, or traffic merchant, in the place and listeningcarefully to what he had to say, Bentley made up hismind that, if the desert was to be crossed, he wouldhave to make his own arrangements for that partof the journey. The Negaris were quite willing,for a consideration, to take his goods as far as theMonkey river, on the other side of which the desertbegins, but beyond that they would risk neitherboys nor mules, especially the latter. It seemed pretty hopeless, when Bentley had thebrilliant idea of setting George to work, aided bythe two boys, who now considered themselves partand parcel of the ex

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