— 29 — wine had overcome my men, and they had become unconscious of their existence.

Then I sent to my ambassador Yiinis who was treating with the Sultan, saying, "If you are standing do not sit down, and, if you are sitting rise with all speed and return to me" . And verily, when my messengers had arrived before him they found that his head was upon the knee of the Sultan, who was giving him to eat with his own hand: then Yunis returned, but the other four, who had been with him, remained behind and were treacherously put to death. We then prepared to do battle and fought for many days until I gained the victory and killed Addu Shakko. His son Sheiga, however, continued the war and, after we had engaged each other for a space of time, he fled to Jebel Sarrago, v.hich is a long hill about one mile in breadth, with many beetling crags and sheer precipices : and in it are patches of cultivation and waterholes, from which the natives eat and drink.

Thrice in nine days did we assault the hill and thrice were we repulsed; in one of these attacks I was wounded hard by the ankle.

Then there came to me one of the neighbouring chieftains who promised to lead us by a way of which we had no knowledge. P'or the space of an hour and a half we marched in a northerly direction, until we came to some exceedingly large rocks :