The Highlands of EthiopiaHarris, William Cornwallis, Sir
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The Highlands of Ethiopia
Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir
Ethiopia -- Description and travel
Having waded through the above tedious list of charges, we arrive, so
the reader may be tempted to imagine, at something new. But that is not
the critic's plan. On the contrary, we find Monsieur Tonson on the
stage again. Well might Dr Krapf exclaim, "Deliver me from my
friends!" if the reviewer in question be really one among the number.
Secretly, however, it is not the Missionary that is aggrieved, but
another individual whose name I will not be provoked to print in my
pages. This person, we are told, came down to Dinomali, in company with
Mr Krapf, "to welcome the Embassy." What he came down to do is not,
however, the question. Come he certainly did; and I should have made
honourable mention of him had I, during my stay in Shoa, found no reason
to be dissatisfied with his conduct. The reverse was the case; and as I
did not choose to be at the trouble of writing in his dispraise, I
thought it better to say nothing. Let the reviewer be satisfied with
that, for, if I should say anything further, I am sure his satisfaction
would not be augmented. He is perfectly right in supposing, that I have
not imparted to the public all the knowledge I acquired in Shoa, and
that I have not related all the piquant comic anecdotes which were often
at my pen's point, struggling to see the light. But who knows? The
time for telling them with effect is not yet passed, and it is quite
possible that, under certain combinations of circumstances, I may yet
return to this part of my subject, especially if the anonymous system be
persevered in, and attempts be made to wound me from behind the friendly
figure of the Missionary.
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