ABYSSINIA 90 very loneliness, sometimes even breaking out into a tuneless chaurit to exercise my lungs. How my spirits rose as I approached the little township of Gildessa ! Here at last were plenty of green trees, and a market, and unsophisticated peasants. I had accomplished one stage in my long… … THE TORRENT-BED OF GILDESSA place others would convey me over the mountains to Harrar. The only drawback was that Gildessa possesses an evil reputation for fever, which some people declare is quite unwarranted. There are cer- tainly no marshes or swamps, but the little town stands close to a broad,…
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