ABSTRACT
ON the afternoon of the 15tll October, all our preparations being apparently complete, the mission, composed of Mr. H. Rassam, Lieut. W. F. Prideaux, of her Majesty's Bombay Staff Corps, and myself, started on its dangerous enterprise. We were accompanied by a nephew of the Naib of Arkiko; and an escort of Turkish Irregulars had been graciously sent by the Pasha to protect our sixty camels, laden with our personal luggage, stores, and presents for the Ethiopian monarch, We also took with us several Portuguese and other Indian servants, and a few natives of Massowah as muleteers.
