3-021-423 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Abyssinian Expedition: view of Antalo, [Ethiopia], 1868. View '...sketched from a point half way up the hill surmounted by the "Amba" [steep-sided, flat-topped mountain]. It looks southward, and is bounded by the range of lofty mountains, twenty or twenty-five miles off, towards Lake Ashangi, in which direction is the road to Magdala, winding up the distant valley, and passing through a very rough country, where our pioneers and engineers will have extremely hard work to open a passage for the guns and baggage. The British camp, being in the plain, nearly six miles from this point of view, is not very conspicuous; but its situation is about the middle of the picture. The town of Antalo, such a town as it is, being a tumble- down old place, half in ruins, with one of its churches in sight, appears here in front'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.