3-021-419 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Abyssinian Expedition: the Shoho Village of Akoo and the Head of Annesley Bay, 1868. Engraving of a sketch by Major H. A. Leveson. 'The Eidalee group of mountains, an offshoot or spur of the Abyssinian Alps, stretches along the head of Annesley Bay; and the village of Akoo...consists of a few scattered huts, inhabited by people of the Shoho race...The view looks northward, down the bay to its opening into the Red Sea; the anchorage and camp at Zulla being visible to the left...with the highlands of Geedam in the background. The island of Dessi, also remote, is shown in the middle of the view...[On the right,] on the eastern shore of the bay...is the Burl peninsula, marked by the Hurton Peak and other eminences...Below these cliffs, on the beach close to the water, still on the spectator's right hand, is the camp of the Egyptian troops, not far from which is the mouth of the Akoo ravine...The foreground is occupied by several of the Shoho huts, standing on a platform or ledge of rock, with a dozen or more Shoho men, women, and children in their ordinary costumes, which are scanty enough contrasted with the attire of their English visitors. These people lead a pastoral life, subsisting on the produce of their herds of cattle and goats'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.