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The March to Magdala

Chapter 4: Footnotes
By G. A. Henty
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A special correspondent's collected field letters chronicle a British military expedition into the Ethiopian highlands to secure the release of detained nationals. Presented largely in the original, present-tense dispatches, the account follows embarkation, sea transport, successive marches through rugged mountain passes, and the strain of supply and transport, describing camps, skirmishes, and the culminating assault on a remote mountain stronghold. Vivid landscape sketches and portraits of local peoples and customs are interwoven with tactical detail and reflections on the hardships, uncertainties, and how early predictions compared with actual experience.

Footnotes

1.
It was not for some months after this date that the transport officers were allowed to move their camp to a more habitable spot.
2.
This regimental arrangement was carried out during the latter part of the march to Magdala, and was found to answer extremely well.
3.
My anticipations with regard to the railway were more than realised; for the last two miles of the railway to Koomaylo were not made at the termination of the expedition, and the portion which was completed was, without exception, the roughest, most shaky, and most dangerous piece of railway ever laid down. It is to be hoped that upon any future occasion a contractor will be employed instead of an engineer officer, who cannot have either the requisite knowledge or experience.

Transcriber’s Note

The table of contents has been added to the electronic version.

The following changes have been made to the text:

page 16, “o” changed to “of”
page 17, period changed to comma after “released”
page 23, “reconnoisance” changed to “reconnoissance”
page 118, “ever” changed to “over”
page 120, “provisons” changed to “provisions”
page 273, “Grifiths” changed to “Griffiths”
page 322, “innumnerable” changed to “innumerable”
page 353, period changed to comma after “Gazoo”
page 372, “were” changed to “where”
page 377-378, “aide-camp” changed to “aide-de-camp”

Variations in hyphenation (e.g. “breakdown”, “break-down”; “waterproof”, “water-proof”) have not been changed.