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    • FROM OUR OWN' CORRESPONDENT IN ABYSSINIA.
    • UNDER THE MOON.
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      94 The Tomahawk. [March 7, * I868.

      94 THE TOMAHAWK . [ March 7 , * i 868 .

      From Our Own' Correspondent In Abyssinia.

      FROM OUR OWN' CORRESPONDENT IN ABYSSINIA .

      Expecting In A Crisis , And Like That Th...

      expecting In a crisis , and like that the too present most anxiousl I Annesley feel th y , at long you Bay accounts , must Feb . have 1 , from 1868 been me . weeks of the ' past status I quo have out had here little . I or am nothing very sorry to , say but , especiall for several y as the last mail from England never came in , and so robbed me can of all assure my usual you sources that the of information correspondents about of the the Expedition Times . and I than Standard the Commander know a great -in deal -Chief ¦¦ more himself about — the their progress letters ¦** ¦— - are —— of event there s -

      WAX * - * " -t A V- " - * % ^ >^ V ^ * A ^ A . A » WWii V * V « A AAli X ^ ¦ - ¦* . . 4 . % « XXAJ , A h ^ ^^^ . M . « r * - * ^^ A a . — ¦ V w w — -w — - — — — to fore tell invaluable you , and . even But to now return I am to writing myself . pro I have forma had , for noth I can ing news that only the . string I onl put y together them safe method down a lot as of of they getting the reach most on me at inconsistent , for all . reall Each y now p moment ieces I find of tributes contradicts . The the result item of of this intelli is gence obvious that . the All preceding information one con is - worthlessand at the end of a week I have nothing my to tell you ,

      whatever whatever all , no such : : your vour thing readers readers as the do do tetse not not -Jly care care , that to to Abyssinia hear hear that that there t is here like is is North . , after after - like amptonshire that of , Brompton and the . climate Again , of have Annesley you not Bay been very bored much to quality death—confess of the water it—b , y and accounts the Christmas of the morale fare of of the " Own Shoh Corres os , the - kno pondents w , I own ? " it Well , any , thing I mean whatever to strike , and out in a this new respect line . I I do am not as well » » ^* M . * . * off _^ * * as % ~*** s everybody % ., V V ^ ¦* J ** T *~ r V- * r else V *' - ' - •»¦ ' W- . * - I ± Jfc mi J .. ** g t— ht * . * . f \ compare V-f V- * AA * - * -r ****¦* . ^»* the w-d . ^ . r Expedition . m . J . * t ~ « . »¦¦¦ w — -w — — to — —

      handle march no a corkscrew mortal the screws man wire , of round , of wh an us d ich , " knows and the Annesley front the where line 17 Bay wherever the consequentl is tip the has that handle y got is screws , the to , , our ti or p on . how line , The but of it likes it . Such then is the status quo . We began by confusion and I can we only are discharge now well into my duties chaos . to Under you in a these fit-and circumstances -start sort of , benefi manner t of . my I can experiences only listen . Here to what then I is hear a page and of g my ive " you Notes the " for last week : —

      Jan . 24 . —Nothing going on . „ 25 . —Ditto , ditto . Saw a live mule to-day . „ 26 . mense —News slaug from hter " the on front both . " sides Mag . dala S taken urrender . Im of - of Theodore the war , , who and undertakes an indemnity to pay of , £ all 5 , the , 000 expenses , and enter into an engagement with the proprietor of

      the the sixty Alhambra Alhambra successive Palace Palace nights . , Leicester Leicester in some popular S Sauare quare , . entertain to to appear anoear - ment—to be hereafter determined upon . All the correspondents of the English press to be delivered up to the Emperor forthwith . ,, 27 . — to No have foundation been partl for y a yesterday mistake of 's news the interpreters . Appears ,

      of partl young y , speciall Hartley y the of the latter 33 portion rd . , a practical joke ,, 28 . — thinks Thirty it -six is a miles mistake of pipe and -clay must arrived be meant . Bracer for somebody else . It is to , be sent back . ,, 2 < j . —20 , 000 Egyptians are marching on to Scna / J , commanded by the Emperor of the French in

      person . Saw another live mule . Not pipe-clay , that look arrived after it . yesterday Doubts , about but piping the Egyptian . Nobody affair to . The Shoho fox half-a-crown is bagajee . Talk of Expedition being abandoned . Thermometer at 90 . An exciting day .

      „ 30 . —All yesterday's news false . It is pipe-clay after all make —thirty the -six men tons look , not soldier miles - . like Bracer on the says march it is to . News this afternoon from the " front . " Captives about g scorp iven ion the up , , for captives but twopence our . forces Thermometer . All in retreat wrong at . , 3 . of Boug Nothing course ht a , much going on . Saw another mule . Wind N .. E .

      bv by E E .. N N .. E E .. lurnished There , now by , a you British have the Tax- very payer latest in the news 7 Ym , later csor than by that the Government in the Mouse of Commons . Mail off . ,

      Expecting In A Crisis , And Like That Th...

      P . S . —Open this again to say that the mail isn ' t off . I might may have known as well it tell . One you does that not JVTp ^ know dala has what been to believe " taken ; " but twice I man since after yesterday all . , I and don that ' t think Theodore I have turns alluded out to to this be before a French , but - it doesn ' t matter , for the whole thing was an evident ca ? iard . it Yes will , the not mail matter was . " off" after all , so this goes next week—but

      Under The Moon.

      UNDER THE MOON .

      (A Friend.) 40. The Notes Now Came In Cr...

      ( A Friend . ) 40 . The Notes now came in crowds and strewed my floor , Just Alike as the in form white and winged much gulls alike come in wishes flapping , o ' er

      *? An unexpected shoal —c ? of — cj silver fishes , x . x < - » As Or mothers flies which do buzz round about Midas a g What ilded fram ' s-his e -name . 41 . To go or not to go ? The question ' s

      there—Do < j we accept with O joy the invitation ? On To paper drop , certainl in answer y . the 'Twould insinuation scarce be fair Ait That contraire if we came we , sh we ould felt writ it was e our a bore leasure : more . , p

      42 . While I debated how to draw the cards : Of The Herbert door Vulcher new open of , and the I Third met the Life features Guards A specimen of Nature , ' s noble creatures ; Transformed to vanity by art or

      vice—In moral scruples never over-nice . — 43-He too in air had smelt the latest prey : " So And glad down to think he swoops at last with you patronising ' re on full pay clawing ! : " You " B ' y re Jove rich ! good you ' ve looking got a prize and Sir what , worth ' s more the drawing know it ! :

      " You must see , life , and I ' m , the man to show you it . " 44-To show it in the colours touched for him With others' gold . In me he might discover A fresh Pactolus , golden to the brim ,

      Where he could dip till all the wealth ran over ; Then leave me dry : without a formal care For how I hence might vegetate—or where . 4 ?' This is the friend who , having had his share

      And Thinks Of Of spent social social he it talents talents has in a bought year in in , a a with handsome handsome the none brevet to fortune fortune to spare importune , ., . His neighbours' goods regards as Heaven-sent ; And borrows to repay what he has lent . 46 .

      And But should always their pulls hand off something be close , he with draws the winners no blank — , They And pay stand his him Hansoms Derby , if drags they , ' re or not Richmond his bank dinners ; : They find it far the cheapest in the end To treat him as their honourable friend .

      47-Too poor to marry , and too vain to love , And He thinks seeks a as nei much ghbour of ' soiling s Eden , a where glove he pensions : As tainting others' Eves with his attentions . No serpent he would make us all believe : He likes the apples quite as much as Eve . 7 o be continued .

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), March 7, 1868, page 94, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_07031868/page/2/