ABYSSINIA 296 made a vow that they would neither drink strong drink, nor tell falsehoods, nor run after the other sex, nor do anything else which was wrong, and they prayed that they might be turned into stones if ever they broke their vow. They tarried here by the roadside, and they sinned, and… … A RIVER IN EAST AFRICA. {Pliotoi^rnph by Captaix Powell-Cotton.) much as anything on my surprising journey. Indeed, I vow that I should have found it difficult to believe in them unless I had actually seen them. I reached Gildessa, homeward bound, in a flood of rain, which seemed now to have become…
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